As an American I'm curious what it's like if you need to go to the doctor and how much you pay from say a broken arm to general checkup. Also list what country please

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 6 months ago

Canada

Conservative governments are trying to kill universal healthcare across the country and where they have privatized it, it does not produce better outcomes, it just costs more.

The big difference from US care, aside from costs, is that Canada does not waste money on a plethora of pointless testing. When testing is required, it is prioritized which upsets people who are addicted to seeing doctors and insist on tests they don't need. The system is heavily abused by a few people.

One patient in Quebec racked up 362 visits in one year.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/health/article/one-quebecer-saw-a-family-doctor-362-times-in-a-year/

  • source
  • parent