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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You don't get better treatment in the US but you can get treatments they decide not to cover/include here and the waits for non-emergency care are way shorter.
Our emergency health care is a lot better than the US overall, but the rest of the system is completely trash.
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It feels most ridiculous when my dog can get an MRI within a couple days for a few hundred dollars (drastically cheaper than US health care, but it's a dog) but yet it's probably going to take months for my dad to get one that he needs right now.
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It's largely privatized in Ontario in the first place since dental, optometry, prescription drugs, psychiatry, etc. isn't covered and annual checkups are gone.
We supposedly have universal health care, but increasingly means universal emergency care + kids/teenagers + seniors.
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