the history of Canada health care system
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The Canadian Health System is based upon the same system that exists in Britan or Sweden. Only the US does not have this type of system
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A long, long history of Western imperialism.
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go to ;  www.canada.gc.ca   for all info
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good call darcy. I live here and i don't trust um either.  can i come and stay with one of you canadians? i'm in michigan, i'm used to hard winters already, i'm pretty low maintenece.  I know how to split wood.  Canada sure sounds nice.  and how 'bout that universal health care ya got? that must be nice, eh?
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I think the biggest issue is poverty.  It also affects everyone everyday.  A lot of the healthcare problems are because of it.  People who are not poor are paying for the people who are.
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I couldn't agree more.  I happen to like the Canadians, but their holier than thou attitude and their adherence to uncontrolled multiculturalism is sometimes grating.  And just because they have universal health care doesn't mean it is necessarily better.  For instance, the city of Detroit has more MRI machines than the whole of Canada.  In fact, Canadians flock to cities like Detroit for more immediate access to health care that they would have to wait months for in Canada.  That having been said, I would like to take the best of Canada and the USA and make one large beautiful country.
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universal health care means everyone in a country has health insurance (I believe this is the system in Germany). Socialized medicine is where the government owns and runs all the hospitals and pays all the Doctors
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In 1890 Chocolate King Hershey built the utopian city Hershey in Illinois to prove that very thing. I am sure there was a difference in mental illness rates back then. Remember cultural rates reported in America show that whites have twice as much mental illness as non-whites today. So cultures can make a difference. Would it be cost effective to give patients sex and money and no pills. I am going to say yes but who will say OK.
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The company I work for has offices in Canada - 80% of Canadians working for us pay for US health care out of their own pockets and come to doctors in the US.  There is a 6-9 month waiting period for MRIs up there!!!  Including for those who are in accidents/have severe problems.   Socialized medicine has failed the middle and lower classes in every country it's in.
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I used to live in Canada and I really wish we had there health plan at the time you would pay 5.00 to go into the hospital it all seems to work out them.
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I feel your pain...I retired to Canada (partially for that reason) a number of years ago and was quite pleased with the health care......a family doctor in Canada is very versatile and can treat a number of ailments including minor outpatient surgery in his/her office...other side of the coin..if you have to go into a hospital, more often than not, unless it is a life or death emergency, you will face a lengthy (several months) wait....now, there IS more to the story....I was able to do this, because at the time, I was married to a Canadian citizen...after a minimum of paper work I was granted health care priviledges...what you would have to do as a non-Canadian citizen to be granted residence in Canada, I'm not sure.........and of course, in this world there is no free lunch, income taxes were considerably higher; and there is/was a modest monthly cost for health care premiums....this was in 1998....if there have been changes since that time, I am not aware of them...........also, I mentioned that was only one of the reasons I moved to Canada...I was living in Victoria, Vancouver Island and it's one of the most beautiful places on earth..the Canadians are great people...ALSO, the U.S. dollar was was about 30 to 40% higher than the Canadian $.....not so now; and it's dropping....so, you've much to consider......good luck!!
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National health insurance, not health-care.\n\nKnow the difference!\n\nWho has the best doctor-patient ratio in the world? That would be Cuba!\n\n{He recalled his first visit to Cuba in 1995. They had 50,000 doctors for their 10 million people. Now, they have 70-80,000 doctors for 12 million people. They dont need any more doctors. They have a doctor in every community, school and factory. They have the best doctor-patient ratio in the world, with one doctor for every 200 people,he pointed out.} (2)\n\nSee all of your links, point by point, rebutted by the professionals at the link below...
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There's some info on it here\nhttp://www.healthinsuranceofwashington.com/habout.htm
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try looking here;\n\nhttp://thehoroscopejunkie.webcentre.ca/\n\nplenty of sites to choose from....good luck
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we have medicare \n(everybody does)but the controversy now is about \nfor those who need surgery , sooner than later for something like cancer, can face long wait times for the surgery (that is what i think is a problem). there is a move towards a'two -tiered' helathcare system, in which those who can and want to pay for it,  can do so, and get service when they want it.\nEvery province handles health care somewhat differently. you still need some insurance to be sure you are covered when you visit another province(like a state), but you can get healthcare in other provinces and get reinbursed for it ( i havent ever done it so not sure how it works).\n\ntho we don't pay for it directly, we pay via taxation. Sales tax and taxes in general. I think Quebec has the highest tax rate in....North America?! fourteen and a half percent sales tax, extra taxes on cigarettes....\nwe do have welfare and unemployment insurance also- but you can barely get by on "social assistance". However there are many training programs available for those on social assistance, and if they attend they get extra $.\nbut we aren't talking Harvard quality education here, but i suppose it's better than zilch.
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Here's a good site\nhttp://www.medicalcareerinfo.com/
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this would be interesting except for your last point.  Look at our system.  We already have one in place and its not working. The Executie Branch has gained a ton of power and the Leg and Jud brances have lost their power.  It's become about helping each other out instead of maintaining balance.  Otherwise your outline exists in Canada.