Clearly you had the means... was it not possible to pay for private healthcare?

excannuk 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No, that's illegal. Thats what single payer means, only one payer is allowed [1].

Is meant to encourage rich people to support the health system since everyone's in it. But in reality the very wealthy go to Buffalo and immigrants visit their home countries.

It's also not lost on public policy experts that MAID has the potential of "solving" a lot of structural problems in Canadian health care and... long and behold MAID has expanded tremendously in ten years.

[1] with some exceptions largely grandfathered in

	▲	bigDinosaur 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's not what single payer actually means, since Australia has both a single payer public system and a separate private system. The part that allows these to both exist is that the public system has vast resources (i.e. an entire national/set of state governments) that can act as one for immense negotiating power. This does not preclude a private system from existing.
	▲	pfannkuchen 9 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> But in reality the very wealthy go to Buffalo This has to be a brand new sentence (post 1950s anyway).

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brink an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What does that have to do with the conversation here?

	▲	readthenotes1 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Some countries have a dual insurance system that might allow wealthier people to get better access. Think of Steve Jobs jumping to the head of the line for a liver transplant