That's because your government paid health insurance mirrors private insurance which seeks to discourage usage and limit claims.
When I get sick, I go to the doctor, or the hospital, get treatment and go home to get better. My doctor bills OHIP for my care. His receptionist does the paperwork, submitting one bill to the provincial payment office.
There is no question of what's covered or what they will pay, nor should there be. That being said, I get one complete physical per year, but that's true of private insurance as well.
Who cares if they were uninsured? They were still able to get care unlike any other place where they have universal insurance. Take a look at the NHS sometime. Yeppers, everyone is "insured" but there's a whole shitload of dead people who wouldn't be had they not had to wait for their care!
Insurance does not equal seeing a doctor. Someday you might understand that simple fact. But I doubt it.
Not really.
Emergency rooms are required to treat them. However, they have no access to standard healthcare. I love how everyone always points to England. Why not point to Sweden? Or the Netherlands? Or Israel? Oh, that's right. Because those exam0ples completely destroy your hair on fire claim that "all universal health coverage is terrible".
However, I'm not necessarily in favour of universal healthcare, either. Might we examine "Medicaid for All" at some future point? Sure. Why not. But right now, all I want is to fix the things that Republicans broke about the ACA.
If you can't afford standard healthcare, how are you going to pay for it AFTER you get insurance because you still have to meet the premiums, and deductibles before it pays a ******* dime?
You do realize that "Medicaid for all" will bankrupt the US. "Medicare for all" will just bankrupt Medicare and they will still have to pay premiums and coinsurance. You are totally confused.
Bullshit. Medicaid for all eliminates the 20% private insurance skims off the top for administration and profit. It eliminates 3rd party billing companies, pre-approvals and those administration costs for hospitals, clinics and physicians. The US currently spends over 30% of every health care dollar on Administration. That amount is less than 10% in single payer countries.
Medicaid is full of doctor administration costs. The Medicaid program is a cluster. My dad and mom are on Medicare, my wife spends hours with the office manager to make sure things get covered and it takes forever, government is a mess if you want things done and done right, you just keep spinning wheels with them.
Wow...you know what? You are an idiot. If you think that emergent care equals healthcare, then I cannot help you. Have a good day.
Those who cannot afford insurance now will not be able to afford insurance in the future, so what did the ACA accomplish? All it did was spending tax dollars and charging people for insurance they cannot afford to use.
That's it exactly, $2000 deductibles, $450 a month policy, then you have co-pays. I never reach my deductibles.
$5000 a year for health insurance plus deductibles and copays is insanity.
I have no copay, except $2 for a prescription, and no deductible. But then I live in a single payer country.
You also pay ridiculous taxes for a country with a military akin to the Boy Scouts of America,
When you factor in healthcare insurance premiums which are part of our taxes, Canadians pay LESS than Americans.
As for our military, the only country who has ever attacked Canada is the USA. We stay out of other countries business and we aren't constantly making war on other countries to protect Canadian interests. But if you need peacekeeping or disaster assistance, don't be afraid to call on us.
Last but not least, we spend most of our tax dollars at home, on our own citizens, and not corporate welfare and wage subsidies or foreign wars. We provide assistance to the sick, the old, and the poor.
And when out governments forget who they work for and who elected them, we DESTROY the party by not electing any of their asshole candidates. Just ask Brian Mulroney, or Paul Martin, or John Turner.
Mulroney' Progressive Conservative Party which negotiated NAFTA and gifted us with the much hated Goods and Services Tax went from a substantial majority in Parliament to 3 seats, lost its parliamentary status and was absorbed by the Reform Party.
You idiots keep re-electing the same hacks who put corporations and lobbyists ahead of people and then complain that Washington is a swamp.
