| > Covered in Canada? Maybe never. Sure, but that's true in the US here, too. No insurance? No med. ERs aren't gonna give you it. Can't make your $6k bronze plan deductible? No med. Maybe you'll qualify for a patient assistance program from the drug company, maybe not. > If American's think they can move to a single payer system and keep all the bells and whistles they have now, they will be deeply disappointed. It's entirely possible to have a supplemental private health insurance system for the experimental or unapproved stuff. You can get private coverage for stuff like IVF in Australia, for example. A lot of America's bells and whistles are already inaccessible to a large portion of the population. > And your 2nd link actually proves my point. The drug in the article is not covered in many Canadian provinces at all. The guy in the article is being denied the drug because it's not approved for his mutation. Most people with the correct mutation do get coverage for that drug (again, a new, state of the art drug). As the article mentions, the insurer approved their sibling with the same mutation for the same medication. Private insurance can be just as capricious as a single-payer's approval system. |