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A good tell that someone is utterly full of shit on Canadian healthcare is that they generalize all of Canada.

“Canadian health care” is not a thing. Each province administers its own completely independent system.

Someone on PEI is in a healthcare system that has as much to do with Alberta’s healthcare system as it does their neighbours in Maine. As a result, anyone referencing Canadian healthcare is talking about a dozen or so unrelated systems that do things very differently. The closest it comes is that there are interprovincial billing systems so you don’t have to do the paperwork to get covered for an urgent visit out of province, and not all provinces are signed on.

You can safely dismiss anyone that has reduced that complexity, or is completely ignorant of it. It’s a great way to tell when a foreigner is spouting talking points they picked up from an unreliable source and did not do even a minimal fact check on. “Canadian health care” as it is talked about in the US media is frequently fiction for propaganda purposes.

Canadians almost always talk about problems within a province. What's happening in the Maritimes has nothing to do with BC.

The feds set a minimum standard for a province to qualify for federal funding, and that's about the limit of their influence.

No idea if the rest of his statement is poorly sourced propaganda as the first sentence.

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You’re ignoring the fact that provinces can’t fund technology that the federal government hasn’t reviewed and negotiated a price for.

So yes there may be differences between provinces in terms of when they fund what restrictions are put on it, the overall trend across Canada is pretty consistent.

And as I said Canadians don’t get the same care as Americans so concluding the higher cost is entirely higher prices for the same thing is false.

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I lived in Ontario for 20 years then I lived in Seattle for the next 17, I assure you that the healthcare I receive and received is pretty much the same - except in Ontario it's way cheaper.

You're talking about cutting edge technologies available to the tiniest sliver of people - I'm not even able to get access to much of them with my private FAANG insurance - and drawing a false comparison.

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Nope. I've not only lived in both countries, I work in healthcare so I'm very close to who gets access to what.

And it's not "the tiniest sliver of people", we're talking about disease like cancer. Check out the CAR-T rates in the US vs. Canada, the difference is stark. And CAR-T is standard of care in some types of lymphoma.

Hell, ask parents with autistic kids what kind of early intervention is available to them in Canada. I had a coworker who moved to the US so he'd have much better access for his kid at a time when it had a big impact.

Look at access to the cystic fibrosis therapy that effectively cures it (e.g. Orkambi). It was paid for by insurance (and Medicaid!) from the day it was launched and avaiable to everyone it could help. In Canada some provinces just started paying for it, but only kids, adults are shit outta luck.

And I don't know the details of your FAANG insurance, but my US insurance (typical corporate insurance) pays for all these new technologies.

Canada is great if you have a routine issue. If you need something specialized you're going to be treated with therapies that are a decade or more old. Hell, even the CBC wrote a whole story about 2 friends with breast cancer and the differences in treatment.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...

"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."