My American Uncle had chest pains, he went to the doctor, the doctor diagnosed his heart problems, he was in surgery the next day and survived for about a decade after that.
My Canadian father had similar problems. He went to his doctor, he was tested, they couldn't find anything, he was sent home and died two weeks later. My father's doctor was an immigrant who I found out later was basically chased out of town for inferior services. I'm sure the diagnostic equipment used to test my father was 10 or 20 years older than most used in the States. The Canadian system doesn't have as many well trained Canadian educated doctors as I believe it should. I think that's partly because the doctors themselves want to limit competition and also the government isn't pushing to train enough doctors.
If you have good private insurance, you're typically better off to be sick in the US. I'm not sure about the details but I've heard that the UK has a pretty good government system. The doctors there are paid on how much healthier they can get their patients to be instead of how many of them that they see.
In Canada there is no user fee which is a big mistake. The original system was supposed to be set up with a user fee but that got lost somewhere along the way. Without a user fee, you get all kinds of hypochondriacs and whiners that go to the doctor for everything. A user fee would also change the attitude of the doctors here. The doctors in Canada quite often act as if they are the boss of everything. If you had a user fee that might change the doctor's attitude by reminding them that the patient is a customer.
My Canadian father had similar problems. He went to his doctor, he was tested, they couldn't find anything, he was sent home and died two weeks later. My father's doctor was an immigrant who I found out later was basically chased out of town for inferior services. I'm sure the diagnostic equipment used to test my father was 10 or 20 years older than most used in the States. The Canadian system doesn't have as many well trained Canadian educated doctors as I believe it should. I think that's partly because the doctors themselves want to limit competition and also the government isn't pushing to train enough doctors.
If you have good private insurance, you're typically better off to be sick in the US. I'm not sure about the details but I've heard that the UK has a pretty good government system. The doctors there are paid on how much healthier they can get their patients to be instead of how many of them that they see.
In Canada there is no user fee which is a big mistake. The original system was supposed to be set up with a user fee but that got lost somewhere along the way. Without a user fee, you get all kinds of hypochondriacs and whiners that go to the doctor for everything. A user fee would also change the attitude of the doctors here. The doctors in Canada quite often act as if they are the boss of everything. If you had a user fee that might change the doctor's attitude by reminding them that the patient is a customer.
So don't believe everything people say. The US health care system has big problems that need fixing just as the Canadian health care system. Considering everything I prefer the Canadian system because I know that no matter where I end up fiancially or healthwise in the future I will always get my healt care. I don't think most people can say that under the US health care system. You pick which is better. 