As an American I’m curious what it’s like if you need to go to the doctor and how much you pay from say a broken arm to general checkup. Also list what country please

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Canada - All of that would be covered, prescriptions aren’t.

    Seemingly more and more people want the American system.

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      21 hours ago

      I suspect they’re sold on the idea that the public system costs them lots of money through taxes to cover people who abuse the system. Clearly, the solution is the American system where you save all that money on taxes, spend 3x as much on employer-sourced insurance tied to your employment while for-profit Healthcare services abuse the system.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s very difficult to understand what something actually is like until you’ve experienced it yourself. To anyone Canadians who want the insurance-driven racket they have down south, I’d would suggest you move there.

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      24 hours ago

      That’s restarted. None of that is covered and we still have to pay for prescriptions. Who would WANT that?

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        12 hours ago

        It’s the near-culmination of a decades-long project to privatize healthcare. Governments defund and mismanage the public system to manufacture consent for privatization.