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Originally Posted by Murf993
Canada's healthcare system is a mess. It is top heavy with administration/bureaucrats and under represented in healthcare workers. We pay almost the most per capita and have some of the worst wait times. Hallway medicine has been a problem for 20 years. I can't count how many hospitals have been closed to save money, and then they build large regional healthcare centres but they always take too long to build and often service such a large area that you have a long distance to travel to get to them. Covid has shone a bright light on how fragile our system is, we are locked down again essentially as a precautionary measure incase hospitals get overwhelmed. We have too few ICU beds for the population as the system is designed to run at near full capacity all the time so even a minor crisis can bring it to it's knees. Sure it's free but we are so heavily taxed that it's really quite expensive.
I will say that if you are critically ill you will get excellent care quickly, but if you are in a chronic or non-critical illness be prepared to wait. I needed an MRI on my neck, I waited 3 months and then had to take an appointment 30 miles from home at midnight to get seen.
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Exactly this. And bloated like any other government service.