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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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I think it would be best if the public health care system was just run at all competently but I don't think that's going to work with how it's set up. It'd be quite sad if it dies off and gets turned into ridiculously overpriced US-style health care but I think it'll happen.

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Health care can be non-profit without it being controlled by the government and it being non-profit doesn't imply it would all be unconditionally free. Choices aren't limited to for-profit corps or government doing it. I think non-government, non-profit models are the way to go.

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For example, if most people had non-profit insurance from a few organizations covering the whole country (not per-province), the bargaining power and economics of scale would still be there. It's really important for it to have systems to prevent corruption and to be efficient.

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I don't think the Ontario government is capable of running infrastructure/services in good faith. It alternatives between the 'Progressive Conservative Party' and 'Ontario Liberal Party' both of which are just ridiculously corrupt and hardly even have any real ideology at all.

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It's often pretty hard to even tell the difference between the 3 major parties aside from mildly different stances on certain social issues. It's not like the US. So for example, NDP is nominally to the left of the Liberals but especially provincially differences are unclear.

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We don't even have much of those kinds of wedge issues or identity politics though. It's there to some extent, but it's a lot more subtle, and I think it's largely just a faint reflection of the US because people consume tons of US media and pay more attention to US politics.

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Parties here haven't really found many ways to differentiate themselves. They don't have all those social issues the parties in the US found to differentiate themselves. I guess they try, but their heart isn't in it. They're basically just a governing class with similar views.