Hey Canada, I heard your health care is free.
Can any Canadians here tell me about and your experience with free health care?
I want to hear from the horses mouth about this.
Hey Canada, I heard your health care is free
Cooper Hill
Dylan Sanders
Canadafag here. One time I went to the hospital and it was free
James Taylor
When my kid was born I only paid for parking.
Gavin James
Always worked. Have a lot of older family with some health issues (heart problems, etc.), and they have had fine care. You are kinda fucked if you want a psychiatrist anytime soon, or any regular appointments.
Jordan Russell
Ontario here, I can walk into any hospital or clinic and get help for whatever I need.
I've fallen 20ft from a barn and had my chin/knees split square open, 25+ stitches and paid nothing.
Mental health is not free and is retardedly expensive, so if I needed to go to rehab/in-patient care for a mental illness that isn't just drug base I'd pay out the ass.
Also wait times are based on severity so it is fairly common for people who are whiny fucks to cry that they aren't getting IMMEDIATE attention or appointments pushed months away when people with actual problems are the priority despite IT BEING FUCKING FREE
Jayden Brown
I went to the hospital because I crashed a snowmobile and I didn't have to pay anything
Josiah Roberts
It's not a complete free-for-all. Some things do cost money. My buddy just broke his hand, and ended up paying $40 because he wanted a dinosaur cast rather than a plain one. Unless you've got supplemental benefits (most people get them through work), you need to pay for prescription meds / glasses / cosmetic dental/ etc. With a medical referral you can usually get psych covered at least to a point, but the waitlists are so long its usually better to just pay out of pocket. Kids get eye exams annually until they're 18, and there are programs for dental as well, if your income is below a certain threshold.
Otherwise? Yeah, it's pretty much free. You get hurt? Go to the hospital, get treated, go home. That's it.
Ian Moore
>be me
>get sick from living with a toddler
>go to doctor
>get doctors note for $30
>play vidya rest of the day
Isaac Reed
Any 514 nudes? Post kiks
Leo Martin
1. Its not technically free since we pay for it with our high taxes.
2. The wait times were considered a human rights violation by the Supreme Court of Canada.
The private sector is far superior and allows for hospitals to compete in speed, efficiency, and price to create an optimal affordable private healthcare system as long as long as things like Obamacare stay out of the picture so that the insurance companies can compete properly.