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
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
Canadian here:
Our successive conservative/neo-liberal governments have been getting our public services, including health-care, for decades now.
Getting appointments for anything is near impossible. To go to a walk-in emergency clinic now requires an appointment, if you can get one. Once you have a reference to a specialist, it takes over one year to get an appointment.
However, the government, in alliance with a private company, have set up websites where you cab easily get appointments in the private sector near immediately or within 2 weeks. If you have a good job you’re most likely to have private insurance to cover the fees up to 80%.
Oh and the Canadian Medical Association, is in on the racket to privatize healthcare. And one of the largest Canadian corporations, Loblaws, who owns a major stake in the grocery and pharmacy business, started investing in the healthcare business as well.
As soon as we got public single payer healthcare, capitalism has been sabotaging it constantly to the benefit of the private industry.
I think it’s province dependent with regards to appointments. Manitoba has lots of walk ins for simple cuts and broken bones.
The more complex injury that will need a CT scan then you have to go to urgent cares/ERs. For anything heart, lungs and life threatening stuff then you need to go to ER. Urgent cares can start you off but if you needed further investigation or specialties then you get shipped to ERs. All free.
With regards to ambulance I think there’s a $500 fee for an ambulance trip to hospital. Some supplemental insurance cover the ambulance trip but I’m not too familiar with the ambulance cost.
I’m in Québec.
Ambulance is free at least.