{UAH} According to Bernie Sanders, all Canadian citizens are guaranteed healthcare, and if they come out of a hospital, they don't get a bill. Is this true?

James Romanow, lives in Canada

 David Cox, PhD Medicine and Healthcare & Microbiology, Texas Tech University (1979)

There needs to be a special space on Quora for Americans to ask about Canadian (and other country's) healthcare system.

So, despite what your boyfriend/newscaster/father says about Canadian healthcare you need to know a couple of things:

• No you don't get a bill coming out of the hospital
• Drugs are cheaper here, Cheap enough that your president's official pharmacare plan is to import drugs from Canada.
• There is Triage in Emergency rooms, and generally throughout the system. If I show up with a cut, and it's a busy place I may wait a while to get stitched. On the other hand on a sunday morning with four people ahead of us, my elderly father was admitted and in a bed inside of a minute. I had to do the paperwork for him while he was being treated.
• Hip and knee replacements are usually done quickly but as the population ages there have been surgery backlogs. Stents etc. get done right away.

In short the system could stand improvement. A Swedish doctor told me he considered the French medical system the world's best. I've heard French men and women complain about their system. Bitching about healthcare is pretty normal worldwide. So yes you can find Canadians who complain.

Here's the numbers you need to know.

Life expectancy in Canada is about 4 years longer than the USA (Canada's ranking is 7, US's ranking is 34.)

Life Expectancy in United States

Infant mortality in Canada is 54 per 10,000 births. In the US it is 58 per 10,000

We get all this without getting billed when we exit the hospital!

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Allan

 

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