Canada supposedly has universal health care but OHIP (Ontario) doesn't even cover basic dental or eye checkups and they phased out annual checkups at your doctor.
Dog can get an MRI within a couple days but a person getting one requires waiting for ages. It's also getting worse.
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Ontario approach to health care is you're on your own from 20 through 64 unless something goes wrong. I think by phasing out annual checkups, etc. they've pretty much doomed it. Official position is pretty much that preventative health care isn't useful according to sketchy data.
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I can see a lot of people supporting privatization simply based on the fact that people expect to have annual physicals.
Ontario expects you to have a reason to book an appointment. If there's something like a tetanus booster you're missing, you won't know, so it won't happen.
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I think it's at the point where it's likely the conservatives (currently in power provincially) succeed at setting up a parallel private health care system where it isn't already nearly entirely privatized like dental, optometry, psychiatry, etc. and then it rapidly goes away.
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Ontario is just so ridiculously incompetent at managing anything whether it's power, education, transportation or health care and the inevitable result is they pass it on to private monopolies gouging people. Provincial government is astounding corrupt/incompetent across parties.
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It's not like Toronto is any better. My dad's house has spent years supposedly being on a priority list for the city replacing their old lead water pipe. He paid for half to be replaced, but they don't allow you to do the whole thing. City contractors need their money too!
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Toronto Hydro has this nice setup where electricians aren't allowed to disconnect the power, but rather you end up having to pay exorbitant fees for city contractors to come do it and then to reconnect it later. Pretty much the whole municipal government system works this way.
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