A mom with a rare brain tumour has successfully undergone surgery that wasn’t available in Quebec, despite the province’s health insurance board denying her coverage.
A mom with a rare brain tumour has successfully undergone surgery that wasn’t available in Quebec, despite the province’s health insurance board denying her coverage.
Is the Canadian healthcare so bad you rather go to the us?! I saw memes about bad healthcare in Canada but don’t know any facts or talked to anyone about it yet
Quebec doesn’t have expertise with the type of tumor she had:
Canada doesn’t have the population density of the US. If a condition is exceedingly rare, patients occasionally need to go to elsewhere to find specialists.
I suspect Americans in less populous states would be in the same boat.
Yea not everywhere is equipped to do all types of operations.
Shit, in America I know someone that just wants a blood work type test done in the largest city in the State. Can’t even find anyone that knows shit all about the test. Several doctors refused to draw the blood and send it out of state. Test can be done at Johns Hopkins (or other 1st rate places around the globe) but hasn’t trickled down to 50 states yet. Doctors stay in their lane and if you want a specialist at the cutting edge you’ll have to travel even in America.
In Canada if you are physically injured or have a baby you go to the hospital, get care and go home. No worries of bankruptcy.
If you have a non urgent / long term condition you spend years waiting to see someone.
On the whole I still think it is a better system than the US but it really does have problems.
People opt not to get treated or take ambulance in the states due to the costs. Even if you have coverage from work you may only have coverage at specific hospitals for some treatments.
It’s decent when it’s serious enough, but the worst case will obviously end up in the news.
There’s almost bo clinics you can visit without an appointment, so you need to call a hotline (8-1-1) to talk to someone who will ask some questions about your current medical condition and try to book you an appointment to the nearest clinic. Be ready to wait at the ER for a long time if you’re not a priority at the triage, but I’d rather wait than paying a fortune when I can’t see anyone else because all the clinics are full and you don’t have a family doctor.