[lalos]

Do doctors want to gatekeep technology to make sure they get a cut every time someone uses this machine? This seems to be sending a signal to the market for more competition of scanning technology so I can see this driving the price down for everybody in the long term.

[version_five]

People will disagree but I think a lot of it is people angry that some can afford it and some cannot. In Canada we have only public healthcare, so everyone gets the same poor government service (unless you are rich enough to go to the US or know the loopholes). And people fight tooth and nail to keep it that way, in the interest in fairness. We recently has a court rule that even though people will die because of the absence of private options, that's an acceptable trade off to enforce "one-tier" universal healthcare. I'm sure doctors wanting a cut is another root cause, but a lot of it is just jealousy.

See https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/...

[pkd]

Healthcare in Canada has many problems but being "public" is not the cause of them. For decades conservative governments have underfunded the medical institutions in my municipality as a way of making true on their promise of lower taxes. Now the hospitals here are understaffed for the wave of infections every year and the staff is overworked. Things could be better if people stopped chasing lower taxes every election and actually thought about where that saved money was going to go. It doesn't need to go private. Although the Ford government in Ontario seems set to lead the province in that direction by continuing the legacy of conservative governments.

[version_five]

Canada isn't the united states, hyperpartisan "conservative governments" nonsense is just ignorant. Our political parties are exactly the same, both support our third world healthcare system as is because it favors entrenched interests and it's politically popular. But don't let that get in the way of playing American and blaming "conservatives".

[pkd]

"both parties are same" is either an incredibly disingenuous interpretation or ignorance, and I can't tell which. Yes, they both ostensibly support the healthcare system in that the CPC doesn't want to say that they want to get rid of it, but you just have to look at the provincial parties recent actions to disprove the "sameness". I even gave you an example. Things don't need to be stretched at much as in the US for the two parties to employ different strategies towards healthcare.

Also I don't think you know the definition of "third word".

[FpUser]

>"people will die because of the absence of private options"

Private options are available for Canadians. Just cross the border. Problem is that your generic Joe Six Pack can not afford it. If they open private in Canada the Janes and Joes still would not be able to pay for it.

[qwytw]

Private insurance in countries with a primarily public healthcare system seem to be relatively affordable in general.

I guess it makes sense because young professionals who get it as job perk are overrepresented in the pool and pretty much all serious/very expensive issues will still be covered by the private system.

[duxup]

Are they gatekeeping? We saw how recommending mammograms earlier and earlier was not a great benefit. Medical arts aren't always just magic and more isn't always better.

[ROTMetro]

My mom had cancer that was treated. The official correct follow-up was to get checked to make sure it didn't come back every 2 years. At the 2 year check it was too late and untreatable. I no longer trust doctors/advisory panels and their 'statistically what's best' and never will again. It cost me my mom. I just want my mom back.

[devilbunny]

I'm sorry for your loss, but if it progresses that far, that quickly, it very likely would have killed her in almost exactly the same time frame even if you had followed her up every six weeks, which is why the "statistical best choice" is often to do things less aggressively.

[davikr]

Scanning Everyone Considered Harmful (and iatrogenic) - look up "overdiagnosis", "incidentalomas" and "cascade effect".