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‘The American model’: Ontario doctor claims move to private care building steam

‘The American model’: Ontario doctor claims move to private care building steam | Globalnews.ca

As the Ontario Medical Association continues to sound the alarm over a family doctor shortage, one doctor said a move toward American-style health care is 'happening already.'

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Nothing to worry about!
It's not like 1 in 4 Americans has medical debt, it's only 23%
- In our family we have gotten smart. We have the wait and hope it goes away health plan.
  
  This. Everyone I talk to says, "but socialized medicine has such long wait times." But these same fuckers avoid going to the doctor until it's absolutely unbearable to deal with because it costs to much to find out if it'll get better on its own. So if you're getting symptoms of something and waiting two months anyway, how is your system better?
Bwahahaha. Sure take the one thing every American doctor or medical associate, every patient and worker hates. That a great idea /s
Think of all the guns and bombers you could buy with all that health money!
How nursing staffing agencies are costing Ontario hospitals untold millions to the tune of $170 million in 2022.
- I wonder what forces have recently created a temporary lack of nursing staff after so many quit because of ignorant hillbillies and their horse paste.
  Wait. I answered my own question.
  And isn't it classic conservatism to fix a multi-year problem with a solution that will damage families for generations? Typical "I got mine so f-u" conservatives.
Socialized medicine administered by bankruptcy courts is definitely the best because it incentives not getting sick. If you can't afford cancer, just don't get it.
Seriously, my wife was diagnosed and even with my reasonably good private insurance we were still out $7500 (our per individual out of pocket maximum) for her last year and this year. I paid another $1200 for my own healthcare last year. I also paid another roughly $6k in health insurance premiums. Most Americans cannot afford that. It has reduced us to living paycheck to paycheck, our emergency fund is gone.
The U.S. and Canada should come up with a citizen exchange where disgruntled U.S. citizens swap places with Canadian morons that think this is somehow better.
Wasn't there a recent report that it was costing the province twice as much with privaye, and that one board member of private place under investigation because he was only accepting profitable patients and diverting low profit "customers" back to the public sustem

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