04-12-2026, 09:50 PM
(04-12-2026, 05:04 PM)leilanidude Wrote: I'd hold off on that Canadian trip, regardless of how bad your eyes get, but maybe only have to use it once your health insurance premiums become too much to afford, and there are no publicly funded health care benefits available for you, and, God forbid, you contract a terrible disease.
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That wonderful Canadian healthcare system doesn't work too well. Long appointment wait times, difficult to get appointments with specialists, etc. People die waiting just to see the specialist or get procedures approved. This is why so many Canadians buy private health insurance even though they have the public insurance. Same thing in the UK, Spain and many other countries.
I don't know about this. An acquaintance of mine who used to be an MD in the US and has dual citizenship with Canada claims their system is way better than ours.
Here's what AI says regarding the above:
"Yes, a large majority of Canadians—approximately two-thirds (66%)—have private health insurance. However, this private care rarely replaces the public system; rather, it supplements it by covering services not fully funded by the government, such as prescription drugs, dental care, vision care, and private hospital rooms....
While private insurance is common, buying private insurance to skip, or "jump," the wait times for medically necessary, publicly funded care (like heart surgery) is generally illegal or restricted in most provinces.."