Canadians don’t understand Ted Cruz’s health-care
 

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2...te-lower-costs

"Roger Martin, another Toronto native and avowed capitalist, spent years as a senior partner at the consulting firm Monitor before becoming dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he recently completed a 15-year stint. He advises U.S. corporate icons like Proctor & Gamble and Steelcase. He lived in the United States for years and has experienced both systems first hand.

Martin told me that Canada’s lower spending, better outcomes and universal coverage make it superior by definition. Plus, it’s “incredibly hassle-free.” In the United States every time he took his kids in for an earache his wife spent hours fighting with the health plan or filling out reams of paperwork. In Canada, he says, “the entire administrative cost is pulling your card out of your pocket, giving it to them and putting it back.”

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"There’s more. Canadian divisions of multinational firms love Canada’s system because when they bid on projects they have no health costs to load in. Also, there’s no crazy “job lock” as with the employer-based system in the United States — where people with (say) a sick child cling to their job for fear of being pronounced uninsurable. His peers, he says, view the U.S. debate as “ideological and not based on economics.”"

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That's why Canadians, including government officials, come here for their serious healthcare needs, because the waiting lists to see specialists in Canada have backlogs from 6 months to two years.

Secondly, Canada has a fraction of our population. You can't have a one size fits system for 300 million people.

Finally, the Federal government has tied the States' hands from trying programs that would save money.

We have "snow birds" that come down from Canada and flood the Dr's offices for their care. It's annoying. Every one I've asked said the wait for any specialized care has a long wait, so it's easier to plan follow ups when they come here every 6mo.

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When you say the bolded how many do you talk to and how?

It jus shocks me that everyone is complaining about Obamacare and the possibility of a single payer and is ok with an insurance middle man that is eventually going to jack up healthcare costs to 20% of GDP in 7 years. We need to get rid of the insurance company middle man. Its make things cost more and makes things more difficult.

Like I said, how many employers would be happy if they didn't have to bear the burden of insurance benefits? How much more hiring could be done?

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http://www.yourdoctorsorders.com/201...th-care-myths/

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Yup Canada's healthcare stinks

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http://eideard.com/2009/06/27/why-do...n-health-care/

I could go on and on. You get the point. Get with the Canadians and see what they do.

But lets all keep pretending that our healthcare is the best in the world.

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http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news...re-system.html

Seems they like their system in Canada.

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Studies in
HEALTH POLICY
December 2012
Waiting Your Turn
Wait Times for Health Care in Canada
2012 Report
by Bacchus Barua and Nadeem Esmail

Key findings

Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10
Canadian provinces report a total waiting time of 17.7 weeks
between referral from a general practitioner and elective
treatment in 2012.

Patients in Ontario experience the shortest wait (14.9 weeks)
followed by Quebec (16.6 weeks), and British Columbia (17.0 weeks).

Patients wait longest for orthopaedic surgery (39.6 weeks)
and wait least for medical oncology treatment (4.1 weeks).

After an appointment with a specialist, Canadians wait
approximately 3 weeks longer than what physicians believe
is “reasonable” for elective treatment.

In 2012, throughout the provinces people are waiting for an
estimated 870,462 procedures. Assuming that each person
waits for only one procedure, 2.5 percent of Canadians are
waiting for treatment.

Only 10.3 percent of patients are on waiting lists because
they requested a delay or postponement.

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploa...-turn-2012.pdf

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Report: Thousands fled Canada for health care in 2011

A Canadian study released Wednesday found that many provinces in our neighbor to the north have seen patients fleeing the country and opting for medical treatment in the United States.

The nonpartisan Fraser Institute reported that 46,159 Canadians sought medical treatment outside of Canada in 2011, as wait times increased 104 percent — more than double — compared with statistics from 1993.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/11/re...#ixzz2hCFfe1TT

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MS patients rally for experimental treatment

Canadians with multiple sclerosis rallied across the country Wednesday to demand access to a controversial procedure not available in Canada or covered by provincial health insurance policies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ms-pat...tment-1.875757

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Pressing on v odooley study for study for study throw down.

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Until something is seriously wrong with them. Again, why did their Prime Minister come here for treatment?

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