25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System Is Better Than The US System

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Dear America:
Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer— full Medicare for all— is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal.
In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They did it with index cards!
Below please find 25 ways the Canadian health care system is better than the chaotic U.S. system.
Replace it with the much more efficient Medicare-for-all: everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital. It will produce far less anxiety, dread, and fear.
Love, Canada

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/26/25-ways-canadian-health-care-system-better-obamacare?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=25%20Ways%20the%20Canadian%20Health%20Care%20System%20Is%20Better%20Than%20Obamacare&

It is difficult to argue with a cheaper and more efficient way to provide healthcare to all as a right, but in a system where profit counts for more than people, thata rgument will be made.

[RKP5637]

1. In the US money is the top priority. Humanity is often placed at the bottom of the list! n/t

[guillaumeb]

2. Agreed.

But what is truly bizarre, in my view, is that many refuse to recognize that the problem of providing better care for less has already been solved by most of the industrialized world.

But in a country where money is called speech, and bribes are called arguments, money wins.

[RKP5637]

3. For all the US PTB often brag about the US often comes in at the bottom of the list for many things.

[guillaumeb]

4. Especially knowledge of other countries.

Being from Canada, I know how little people actually know about Canada, or the Canadian health care system. And this lack of knowledge, combined with the "USA #1" slogans, lead to people not realizing how bad the US healthcare system really is for anyone who needs to use it for anything more than basic wellness care.

[area51]

5. We need

single-payer/Medicare for All now! See sig line for # of preventable deaths per year.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. we pay for wealth care first, then health care

A portion of the cost of every pill, doctor bill and hospital bill goes to support those lavish office buildings, incessant advertisements, an army of "doctors" whose only purpose is to review and deny insurance claims, and a top-heavy pyramid of executives and salespersons living high off extracting premiums and denying coverage.

[guillaumeb]

7. A significant portion.

The entire healthcare industry is incredibly profitable, while millions have no access to care.

[Jake Stern]

8. Ruh roh

An article that can been seen as critical of Obamacare will surely rankle a few DUers.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. ACA is the best compromise on the way to Medicare4all

It's not an end goal; it's the best we could get given the opposition in place.

[guillaumeb]

10. The article points out the obvious deficiencies.

And President Obama said that he would have preferred a single payer system.

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House."

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/16/barack-obama/obama-statements-single-payer-have-changed-bit/

So there is that.

[Jake Stern]

11. Don't disagree in the least

I am a strong supporter of single payer healthcare.

It just seems like whenever there is any criticism of ACA posted on here no matter how slight there are those who act like it's a personal affront to them.

[guillaumeb]

12. I agree with you.

I have previously posted about Medicare for All, and it is interesting how many people insist that the cheaper method, single payer, is somehow unaffordable.

[niyad]

13. k and r and bookmarking

[guillaumeb]

14. From personal and family experience,

I feel that the Canadian system is better. Even Canadian conservatives admit that single payer works better. And it was first adopted by a Conservative Provincial Premier.

[niyad]

15. I remember in Michael Morre's documentary, when his relatives won't even cross over

to have coffee here, because of how poor our system is.

[roamer65]

16. States need to band together and form a single payor system.

States like NY, NJ, CA, MI, WA, OR etc, etc.

There will be a need for system of checks to prevent medical immigration to those states from the ones that don’t participate.

Such as a 1 year work and residency requirement. The requirement in Ontario is 3 months residency for OHIP.

[guillaumeb]

17. That would be one way to start it. eom