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Originally Posted by AmateurEmale
Could any Canadians knowledgeable about your health care system, who may be reading this thread at VEF, tell me if Health Canada really just means that major medical expenses, surgeries at hospitals, and/or doctor checkups are covered? And I've also read that certain services like vision, dental, cosmetic surgery, and/or braces are not covered necessarily, and that you could have a private plan for these services rather than your government. I have been concerned about this issue since high school, when in 1994 Bill and Hillary Clinton were first proposing "national health care", and by 2004 I was hospitalized and first had to go on Medicaid to pay my specialist bills as an unemployed recent college graduate.
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The Canadian system covers only major med, and doctor visits (although some services like letters to employers are subject to a kind of co-share). Pharmaceuticals, dental, optical, many physio and most cosmetic are not covered and most people have supplementary coverage through their employers. Most people complain that there are lengthly wait lists for some surgeries. but some of this may be a a result of the size and distribution of the Canadian population rather than the structure of the system itself.
One thing here however is that while our government can be just as incompetent as yours, we haven't made such a cock-up of implementing the health care as Obama's hand-picked cast of sycophants and bundler's has managed to to do. Never has so much been spent for so little.