As a fellow Canadian, I feel that. I've had the same family doctor my whole life and really wanted to switch to a different one after a bad experience about 5 years ago, but haven't been able to find a replacement since there aren't any accepting new clients.
It’s a bit of a perfect storm right now. With a pretty high amount of immigration into canada, and a profit cap on the amount of people a doctor sees(doctors in canada get paid on the amount of patients they have, to a limit. This was put in place to prevent competition between doctors), there’s currently a shortage of doctors, and no incentive for doctors to take new patients.
i was lucky a few years ago, a married couple who are both doctors moved to my small town so i got a family doctor. but then last month i got a letter in the mail saying they were moving out of the country cause our health care has gone to shit
Canadian here, and I totally get that. I moved to another city seven years ago, just as my old family doctor retired, and I was on the family doctor waitlist for like 6 years. It's crazy over here
I’m also Canadian and I literally just talked to my friend yesterday about her having the same problem. I’m apparently very lucky because we’ve had the same good family doctor for as long as I can remember, and honestly I’m starting to appreciate that a lot more after hearing about stuff like this happen.
Same thing in Germany. If you are sick, you would have go to your "home / house doctor". Since I do not have one anymore, because my old one quit years ago, I literally have nowhere I'm "allowed" to go in case I got sick. They don't take any new people aswell, so the options are either: Hope to not get sick and if you do, be it either so that you survive without a doctor or its so bad that you are an emergency and go straight to the hospital. I had covid a few months ago, was in a miserable condition and still had to finish my Bachelor thesis during that since I had no way to get officially reported as sick.
@@null-Oh-6666 Americans call them general practitioners. The doc you go to for everyday sicknesses. They are called home or house doctor because they used to actually come to your home if you were sick and couldn't go see someone. But that's a VERY long time ago - early 1900s. Now it's only very rare that a doc will come to your home, usually only for elderly people.
In germany, there is the ruleing that - if you are sick and need medicine or a note for sick leave - every general practitioner has to see you, even if you have to wait all day! If you walk in saying you are sick, you will get treated but need to wait for an open time slot. If they keep telling you: "We don't take new patients" you can also tell them that none in your area do and they should have to accept you - not 100% sure about the last one. Also you can call you health insurance saying that you can't find a general practitioner in your area that takes in new patients and they will find one for you or make them accept you. German health care system is overloaded but you have options.
As a Canadian I havent had a family doctor for almost 16 years genuinely, and nobody in my city is looking for patients either. The doctor shortage is seriously an issue. The only reason i can get primary care currently is just because im not 25 yet so i can take advantage of the youth services in my province otherwise im fucked.
The duality of a free healthcare system. Its free, but you have to wait. Honestly ill take that any day over having to choose between housing/food or health
So, universal healthcare's issues involve dr shortages and massive waittimes for any non-emergency care, and private healthcare's issues may be less on the wait times and shortages depending on locality but cost too much to get care anyway. Is there anywhere on the planet where healthcare is a _useable_ service that can actually sustain its local population? Crimany, humanity still hasn't figured out how to provide for their human rights.
The private systems pay more because the public systems everywhere else don’t play fair. They force healthcare to be so cheap as to be unsustainable for the industry. The losses have to be recouped somewhere or they’ll just go out of business.
In the US healthcare system, you can walk into a doctor's office and see them super quickly, but it will cost you a ton of money. In the Canadian healthcare system, you don't have to pay a ton of money to see a doctor, but it will take you forever to get into one. I honestly don't know which one is worse.
I was somehow very lucky when I got my family doctor. The one I got must have just started working there or something, because she had practically no clients when I applied to get her as my doctor
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People like to complain about it, but our healthcare is great, I would be 260k dollars in debt with medical bills if I lived in the USA. I'll take a bit of a wait over my life being ruined because of issues outside of my control.
Until you have a life-threatening problem with urgent care needed, but you can't see a doctor or surgeon for months. But hey, you've got it MAID in Canada.
I have chronic illnesses, a bunch of other medical issues, and was in the ER last year. I have thousands in medical debt I'm paying off from LAST YEAR. I'm 19 years old.... I would 100% wait longer than be in this situation.
@lysanderxx1664 In the event of necessary urgent care, a person is rushed to the top of the line. The people that have to wait are the people that aren't in dire need. Hope that helps your understanding.
@@lysanderxx1664 That's not how it works though, it's just how the USA has demonized our healthcare because... well because it's not how they do it I guess, I don't really see any other reason for it... Anything life threatening or heavily debilitating is priority, that's where the wait tends to come from. If someone gets shot, or you're having a stroke, or even a severe allergic reaction, you are seen immediately at the hospital. The guy with a broken leg might have to wait, and I waited 3 months to have my gallbladder removed, but that's just not that big of a deal compared to the sudden unalive I would experience if I did have debt like that. At that point in my life that is just not a joke (I'm better now). I recently seriously hurt my leg, I had 3 x-rays, an ambulance ride, was given morphine, and was given a high quality removable immobilizing brace. It only took about 2 hours total, and I paid $45 for the ambulance, that's it. And there is nothing stopping someone with an illness that might get pushed back from looking for treatment in other countries, medical tourism is a huge thing nowadays. Yes that can be expensive as well, but depending on the issue it may still be the better option. I promise it's not nearly as bad as it sounds for there to be a wait. Yes there are cases of life saving treatments being pushed back and people dying. But, while I do not actually know the statistics, I imagine that number is much lower than the amount of people with equally serious issues that are just afraid to get help in the USA. It's not a perfect system, none of them are. But I am thankful for the one I have, despite it's flaws. Edit: I want to add that in my personal experience it seems like the Canadians that do complain also tend to be the ones that have never had a serious life threatening issue before, usually it's a chronic but manageable problem. So they don't really see anything outside of the wait, which is understandable. I'm not trying to make those people out to be bad or anything. On the contrary, I'm happy they haven't had to experience that, and hope they never do.
Americans that want socialized healthcare would have you believe Canadas healthcare poops rainbows. Seems everyones got decent problems innevery system.
I can't believe I'm saying this but thank goodness I'm American for medical reasons. A system where you'd need to wait that long would be so incredibly bad for me in my specific circumstances.
Not everyone in America has access like that though. A huge majority of my disabled/chronically ill friends cannot find doctors right now and it's awful
@@purplegill10 Oh, of course! Don't get me wrong. The US Healthcare system is DEEPLY flawed, but I'm just saying that given my specific medical issues, needing to wait that long would be devastating. I might as well not be able to afford the healthcare at that point. (I'm exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect but the point is it would not be compatible with the kind of care I need for my specific issues.)
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As a fellow Canadian, I feel that. I've had the same family doctor my whole life and really wanted to switch to a different one after a bad experience about 5 years ago, but haven't been able to find a replacement since there aren't any accepting new clients.
It’s a bit of a perfect storm right now. With a pretty high amount of immigration into canada, and a profit cap on the amount of people a doctor sees(doctors in canada get paid on the amount of patients they have, to a limit. This was put in place to prevent competition between doctors), there’s currently a shortage of doctors, and no incentive for doctors to take new patients.
@@mitchelljohnson6106I didn't know about the patient limit for doctors. That's really interesting.
i was lucky a few years ago, a married couple who are both doctors moved to my small town so i got a family doctor. but then last month i got a letter in the mail saying they were moving out of the country cause our health care has gone to shit
The UK is like that with dentists rn. I haven't seen one in like 4 years because of it
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Canadian here, and I totally get that. I moved to another city seven years ago, just as my old family doctor retired, and I was on the family doctor waitlist for like 6 years. It's crazy over here
I’m also Canadian and I literally just talked to my friend yesterday about her having the same problem. I’m apparently very lucky because we’ve had the same good family doctor for as long as I can remember, and honestly I’m starting to appreciate that a lot more after hearing about stuff like this happen.
Same thing in Germany.
If you are sick, you would have go to your "home / house doctor". Since I do not have one anymore, because my old one quit years ago, I literally have nowhere I'm "allowed" to go in case I got sick.
They don't take any new people aswell, so the options are either: Hope to not get sick and if you do, be it either so that you survive without a doctor or its so bad that you are an emergency and go straight to the hospital.
I had covid a few months ago, was in a miserable condition and still had to finish my Bachelor thesis during that since I had no way to get officially reported as sick.
What is even a home doctor?
@@null-Oh-6666 Americans call them general practitioners. The doc you go to for everyday sicknesses.
They are called home or house doctor because they used to actually come to your home if you were sick and couldn't go see someone. But that's a VERY long time ago - early 1900s. Now it's only very rare that a doc will come to your home, usually only for elderly people.
In germany, there is the ruleing that - if you are sick and need medicine or a note for sick leave - every general practitioner has to see you, even if you have to wait all day! If you walk in saying you are sick, you will get treated but need to wait for an open time slot. If they keep telling you: "We don't take new patients" you can also tell them that none in your area do and they should have to accept you - not 100% sure about the last one.
Also you can call you health insurance saying that you can't find a general practitioner in your area that takes in new patients and they will find one for you or make them accept you.
German health care system is overloaded but you have options.
As a Canadian I havent had a family doctor for almost 16 years genuinely, and nobody in my city is looking for patients either. The doctor shortage is seriously an issue. The only reason i can get primary care currently is just because im not 25 yet so i can take advantage of the youth services in my province otherwise im fucked.
The duality of a free healthcare system. Its free, but you have to wait. Honestly ill take that any day over having to choose between housing/food or health
So, universal healthcare's issues involve dr shortages and massive waittimes for any non-emergency care, and private healthcare's issues may be less on the wait times and shortages depending on locality but cost too much to get care anyway. Is there anywhere on the planet where healthcare is a _useable_ service that can actually sustain its local population? Crimany, humanity still hasn't figured out how to provide for their human rights.
The private systems pay more because the public systems everywhere else don’t play fair. They force healthcare to be so cheap as to be unsustainable for the industry. The losses have to be recouped somewhere or they’ll just go out of business.
The parts of universal healthcare that suck, suck because they're privatized.
I had to wait 3.5 years to get one....had to go to walk in clinics for that time frame.
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At least he doesn't have to wait a year and then pay 50k
In the US healthcare system, you can walk into a doctor's office and see them super quickly, but it will cost you a ton of money.
In the Canadian healthcare system, you don't have to pay a ton of money to see a doctor, but it will take you forever to get into one.
I honestly don't know which one is worse.
Like the professor Layton said : "every puzzle has an answer".
It's worse in Toronto. Our wait list for a family doctor here is 30+ years.
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Same shit in France sadly...
Same in America, hard to find a primary care physician
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I was somehow very lucky when I got my family doctor. The one I got must have just started working there or something, because she had practically no clients when I applied to get her as my doctor
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I'm from the Netherlands, this sounds way too familiar 😂
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As an American, thats wild.
Australian here. Is a family doctor the Canadian version of a GP?
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People like to complain about it, but our healthcare is great, I would be 260k dollars in debt with medical bills if I lived in the USA. I'll take a bit of a wait over my life being ruined because of issues outside of my control.
Until you have a life-threatening problem with urgent care needed, but you can't see a doctor or surgeon for months. But hey, you've got it MAID in Canada.
It’s all fun and games until the doctor puts a gun on the table
I have chronic illnesses, a bunch of other medical issues, and was in the ER last year. I have thousands in medical debt I'm paying off from LAST YEAR. I'm 19 years old.... I would 100% wait longer than be in this situation.
@lysanderxx1664 In the event of necessary urgent care, a person is rushed to the top of the line. The people that have to wait are the people that aren't in dire need. Hope that helps your understanding.
@@lysanderxx1664 That's not how it works though, it's just how the USA has demonized our healthcare because... well because it's not how they do it I guess, I don't really see any other reason for it...
Anything life threatening or heavily debilitating is priority, that's where the wait tends to come from. If someone gets shot, or you're having a stroke, or even a severe allergic reaction, you are seen immediately at the hospital. The guy with a broken leg might have to wait, and I waited 3 months to have my gallbladder removed, but that's just not that big of a deal compared to the sudden unalive I would experience if I did have debt like that. At that point in my life that is just not a joke (I'm better now).
I recently seriously hurt my leg, I had 3 x-rays, an ambulance ride, was given morphine, and was given a high quality removable immobilizing brace. It only took about 2 hours total, and I paid $45 for the ambulance, that's it.
And there is nothing stopping someone with an illness that might get pushed back from looking for treatment in other countries, medical tourism is a huge thing nowadays. Yes that can be expensive as well, but depending on the issue it may still be the better option.
I promise it's not nearly as bad as it sounds for there to be a wait. Yes there are cases of life saving treatments being pushed back and people dying. But, while I do not actually know the statistics, I imagine that number is much lower than the amount of people with equally serious issues that are just afraid to get help in the USA.
It's not a perfect system, none of them are. But I am thankful for the one I have, despite it's flaws.
Edit: I want to add that in my personal experience it seems like the Canadians that do complain also tend to be the ones that have never had a serious life threatening issue before, usually it's a chronic but manageable problem. So they don't really see anything outside of the wait, which is understandable. I'm not trying to make those people out to be bad or anything. On the contrary, I'm happy they haven't had to experience that, and hope they never do.
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Bro that’s me too I don’t have a family doctor and no one is accepting new patients. It’s gg
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Americans that want socialized healthcare would have you believe Canadas healthcare poops rainbows.
Seems everyones got decent problems innevery system.
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Massive waitlist describes public healthcare systems perfectly.
And bankruptcy describes private health care perfectly
I can't believe I'm saying this but thank goodness I'm American for medical reasons. A system where you'd need to wait that long would be so incredibly bad for me in my specific circumstances.
Not everyone in America has access like that though. A huge majority of my disabled/chronically ill friends cannot find doctors right now and it's awful
@@purplegill10 Oh, of course! Don't get me wrong. The US Healthcare system is DEEPLY flawed, but I'm just saying that given my specific medical issues, needing to wait that long would be devastating. I might as well not be able to afford the healthcare at that point. (I'm exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect but the point is it would not be compatible with the kind of care I need for my specific issues.)
Having Canadian wait times? Couldn't be me!
Having any amount of wait time where you can actually afford to be treated? Couldn't be us!
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Ah yes the downside to government provided healthcare. People actually getting healthcare means there’s a wait when you need it
Alternatively you could get your mother pregnant. 2 illnesses at once.
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