With an estimated 6.5 million Canadians lacking a family physician, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) says it’s time to seize a rare opportunity: attracting American-trained doctors to Canada.
A doctor I worked with in the last few years had moved back from the US to Canada in 2022. He is Canadian by birth but had exclusively worked in the US and I guess wanted to get out of there politically. Well, he didn’t like how health care ran here at all, said OHIP was stingy, thought we did everything wrong and complained all the time, his wife HATED Canada, so last fall he got a job back in the US, and told us November 1st. The day after the election I asked him where he was going, and he told me the state, but said he didn’t know anymore after the election if it was a good idea. But his family had already moved there and he had signed a contract so off he went.
I think criticizing the Ontario government for how they handle health care is totally valid, and I understand the money is much better down there, but honestly to stay out of fascism, not have to chase payments across multiple insurance companies and from patients, the death of Medicaid and Obamacare, and very potentially at this point have your funding for your program killed off altogether under Trump, well why would you choose that? I do understand living in a country that isn’t your way of life is also hard, but the institutions of the US are being dismantled by the Trump government rapidly.
Honestly the simplicity of just billing one place seems much more appealing than more money, and denying care to patients for lack of coverage seems terrible. I don’t know why anyone would want to work under such a system. We’re vastly less than perfect, but that seems like a total headache. But whatever. Learn the hard way I guess.
No billing to private insurance.
That alone would make me move. Even for half the salary I was making in the US.
A doctor I worked with in the last few years had moved back from the US to Canada in 2022. He is Canadian by birth but had exclusively worked in the US and I guess wanted to get out of there politically. Well, he didn’t like how health care ran here at all, said OHIP was stingy, thought we did everything wrong and complained all the time, his wife HATED Canada, so last fall he got a job back in the US, and told us November 1st. The day after the election I asked him where he was going, and he told me the state, but said he didn’t know anymore after the election if it was a good idea. But his family had already moved there and he had signed a contract so off he went.
I think criticizing the Ontario government for how they handle health care is totally valid, and I understand the money is much better down there, but honestly to stay out of fascism, not have to chase payments across multiple insurance companies and from patients, the death of Medicaid and Obamacare, and very potentially at this point have your funding for your program killed off altogether under Trump, well why would you choose that? I do understand living in a country that isn’t your way of life is also hard, but the institutions of the US are being dismantled by the Trump government rapidly.
Honestly the simplicity of just billing one place seems much more appealing than more money, and denying care to patients for lack of coverage seems terrible. I don’t know why anyone would want to work under such a system. We’re vastly less than perfect, but that seems like a total headache. But whatever. Learn the hard way I guess.