… But you still charge everybody into debt bondage for saving their lives. Here I do not pay for health insurance and have never walked out of the ER with a bill. I legitimately fear my American friends getting hurt in a way that simply does not apply to my domestic friends because I know that their lives won’t be impacted financially long term. From what I have gathered from information about their wait times for surgery there isn’t that much difference except for joint and mobility related stuff and even then it’s not that far off.
The fact that employers are allowed to control what healthcare you receive and coerce you into staying with them or else you enter a dicey period where you have to cover you or your family yourself in any way just seems fucking exploitative and bonkers from a Canadian perspective.
So as a traveling American I had some health trouble and needed to see a doctor in Canada. This was not through any health insurance but as a completely uninsured person.
People keep apologizing to me about the cost and the whole series of uninsured visits and medicine was less than and single co-pay would have been under my coverage.
It was absolutely eye opening to see exactly how much things cost when they are billed without profit factored in.
… But you still charge everybody into debt bondage for saving their lives. Here I do not pay for health insurance and have never walked out of the ER with a bill. I legitimately fear my American friends getting hurt in a way that simply does not apply to my domestic friends because I know that their lives won’t be impacted financially long term. From what I have gathered from information about their wait times for surgery there isn’t that much difference except for joint and mobility related stuff and even then it’s not that far off.
The fact that employers are allowed to control what healthcare you receive and coerce you into staying with them or else you enter a dicey period where you have to cover you or your family yourself in any way just seems fucking exploitative and bonkers from a Canadian perspective.
So as a traveling American I had some health trouble and needed to see a doctor in Canada. This was not through any health insurance but as a completely uninsured person.
People keep apologizing to me about the cost and the whole series of uninsured visits and medicine was less than and single co-pay would have been under my coverage.
It was absolutely eye opening to see exactly how much things cost when they are billed without profit factored in.