Finding a doctor after you have government health insurance is not as easy as passing a law offering universal health insurance. You have to pay them a decent wage for the skills they have.
About 1,500,000 Canadians don’t have or cannot easily find a primary care physician. Because of a shortage in medical staff in Norwood, Ontario, in one instance, a TV video showed a town clerk pulling names of lucky winners to see a doctor in a lottery. Losers had to wait.
That’s only one reason many sick Canadians come to America for surgery. Canadian officials call much of what we may consider essential surgery as “elective.”
Before we change our system to emulate Canada’s or the British version,or any other universal health coverage gimmick, remember health coverage does not automatically mean health care.
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