Because it's ranked by fucking socialists

Becuase it uses a stupid hybrid system

Additionally, healthcare in general is either a privatized or state-by-state system, aside from the abortion that is Obamacare and its replacement attempts

It would take some serious chaos for y'all to impliment what Canada has but at least what we have usually works and keeps us not-broke

That privatization is why the US excels at innovation in that field

Most of my regular perscriptions and checkups are free

even when I had a cyst removed a few years back I was covered for the lion's share of it

Hormonal anticonception was developed in Europe

Folks from Canada come down here for shorter wait times and, in more extremen cases, rarer/more experimental treatments

That's true.

So there is innovation in Europe

From my family doctor saying "yeah that's a cyst, sorry man" cause it was in a spot that made walking and sitting pretty fucking annoying, to getting it removed, was almost a year

But it was almost free

That's the trade-off in canadia

especially with this "right to try" law we're looking at

if not already have

This is the trade off

Experimental traetmets are expensive

Yeah, Canada and the US have this healthcare deal almost in place where our folks migrate over the border if they need something from the other system

So it wont get funding

Ye Ye

But yeah like, other surgeries i've had, esp emergency ones

When I was... Between 5 and 7 some fuck picked me up by the feet and swung me around for kicks and cracked my head open on a brick pillar.

My biggest objection to nationalized healthcare will always be the potential for political weaponization

Got staples and meds within an hour, pretty much free

ditto the time I fell on a set floor and simultaniously split my chin open and bit almost through my lower lip

Look at how much the US government managed to politically weaponize *collecting income taxes*

*wet floor

Then imagine what it could do with *literal life-or-death power*

yeeaaah

your guv'ment lies to do that

*likes

I wouldn't doubt that yours does, too, you just hear less about it

We do it silently

I've heard rumors of "death councils" or whatnot in Canada for people on life support, since the healthcare buck stops with the government in Canada instead of the family

y'all are so fucking loud on the world stage Canada can do almost anything without being noticed

Gordon Sinclair said something to that effect

"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."

There's a pierre trudeau quote I like, for when I talk about america a lot and someone says "why does it matter we're not America":

well hey, if it makes you feel any better..:

As a Canadian speaking right after the US pulled out of Vietnam, he continued, "Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."