Much fewer than the number of Canadians who crossed the border into the US to receive treatment and procedures from specialists with access to the best doctors and no waiting.
The answer to both is less than 1%.
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Much fewer than the number of Canadians who crossed the border into the US to receive treatment and procedures from specialists with access to the best doctors and no waiting.
no waiting
"The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S."
Less than 0.2%.
"So we're better than The United States," he wrote, referring to the rankings. "But should we really aim so low?"
Are you just trying to help me?
No ... My Medicare policy paid 80%.
Riiiigggggghhhhhhhttttttt..........we cant legislate anything of importance while Schiff and Nadler keep abusing their offices
"The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S."
Less than 0.2%.
"So we're better than The United States," he wrote, referring to the rankings. "But should we really aim so low?"
Are you just trying to help me?
Medicare absolutely is government run national healthcare. Stop playing semantic games.No ... My Medicare policy paid 80%. I have been pre-paying on this policy for 45-50 years.
Medicare is supposedly an insurance policy ... although the government seems to regard the capital reserves normally required of an insurance company as a piggy bank.
And Death panels.single payer = waste, fraud ,abuse, huge tax rates and Crappy Health Care
and it can never be repealed
Interestingly, this is not the experience of those in places like Canada, or England or other Western European democracies.
...and if your insurer decides you've "spent too much" by March, then you're completely f***ed until the following year.
United healthcare to make 260 billion in 2020. There are 357 million people in the US. That means every American put in about $80 bucks in the coffers of United.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...7AWv-0UKT00Ml2ooYkAMtiR3OGcqz-AI#482b78b27ee5
No ... My Medicare policy paid 80%. I have been pre-paying on this policy for 45-50 years.
Medicare is supposedly an insurance policy ... although the government seems to regard the capital reserves normally required of an insurance company as a piggy bank.
Profit likely helps end your misery soon than later...Nothing like profiting from human misery
Medicare absolutely is government run national healthcare. Stop playing semantic games.
United healthcare to make 260 billion in 2020. There are 357 million people in the US. That means every American put in about $80 bucks in the coffers of United.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...7AWv-0UKT00Ml2ooYkAMtiR3OGcqz-AI#482b78b27ee5
Well hell. Why not donate your salary then doc? Aren’t you profiting from people’s problems?
Fact is, the insurance companies take risks providing insurance. As such they are entitled to profit from it. Maybe we should just centralize all means of production since we are now calling out any profit as bad? Is that what you propose?
I took a lot of time and risk achieving my medical degree and I intend to profit over the course of my life from it. Now tbh I also love the practice of medicine for a variety of reasons but no way in hell I’d have gone thru the schooling I did, the hours I work, the debt I accumulated, the stress the job carries, and the abuse I often take from patients to make the same as a journeyman plumber. Not a chance.
And doing a hideous job.They already are, Trad. They already are.
Helpful hint: plumbers make almost as much as doctors do, after you deduct the cost of malpractice insurance....
I agree that that’s a debate for another thread. I went to see Pete today and this was a topic he discussed.Yes I agree but that doesn’t mean that it is readily transferable to the population more broadly.
I agree that that’s a debate for another thread. I went to see Pete today and this was a topic he discussed.
That we need a solution that protects the profitability of providers especially in rural areas. Doesn’t sound too socialist to me.What did he say?
Lol. You missed my point.And doing a hideous job.
That we need a solution that protects the profitability of providers especially in rural areas. Doesn’t sound too socialist to me.
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If we go to socialized medicine we are gonna seriously degrade the quality of people choosing to be physicians I guarantee you.
Helpful hint: plumbers make almost as much as doctors do, after you deduct the cost of malpractice insurance....
U.S. Government controlled healthcare
158,000,000 kicked off their plan
700,000 health insurance workers out of work.
Joe with your fascination with all things European
Wrong. if your insurance drops you it is a qualifying event for enrollment in the non open period.
FUNFACT: Canada is in North America.
And Death panels.
The fact that people defend a for profit middle men siphoning off an additional 5 trillion dollars for their wallets absolutely blows my mind.
Yep...saying people in other countries don't like their health care is a flat out lie. They love it.Nope.
I have a relative who lives in Canada. Thinks the care is quite excellent, and none of the co-pays nonsense.
United healthcare to make 260 billion in 2020. There are 357 million people in the US. That means every American put in about $80 bucks in the coffers of United.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...7AWv-0UKT00Ml2ooYkAMtiR3OGcqz-AI#482b78b27ee5
Wow. Full disclosure - I am a big believer in capitalism and free markets, but not in the case of healthcare. You just wrote some seriously simpleminded sh*t there. Here are a few reasons this does not work in this case:The fact people don’t understand that profits are merely information signals in a market economy, and they perform a crucial function of directing resources to expand production absolutely blows my mind.
People looking at above average profits and not deducing there is a need for greater production to meet demand, but instead clamoring for price controls and a government monopoly to implement them utterly blows my mind.
Yet here we are.