On 4/10/2016 2:29 PM, graham wrote:
> On 10/04/2016 2:28 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 4/10/2016 3:46 PM, wrote:
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How much does the average Canadian pay for free medical? Based on
>>>>>> income?
>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I did find this and it does not look so good.
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nadeem-...b_3733080.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In 2013, a typical Canadian family of four can expect to pay $11,320
>>>> for
>>>> public health care insurance. For the average family of two parents
>>>> with
>>>> one child that bill will be $10,989, and for the average family of two
>>>> adults (without children) the bill comes to $11,381.
>>>
>>> Ed pls don't pay too much attention to what the Huff Post has to say,
>>> I sincerely doubt their figures are even correct.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps, but nobody else has been able to put a dollar figure on it.
>> Those numbers are not much different than what we pay.
>
> No, Ed. Our costs are about half of yours, according to the OECD.
> Graham

http://watchdog.org/208299/canadians-flee-health-care/

These are two of the reasons why over 52,000 Canadian patients traveled
abroad to get health care in 2014, according to the Fraser Institute.
That’s a 25 percent increase from the previous year, where an estimated
41,000 people traveled to get health care.

And we’re not talking about plastic surgery, which accounts for barely
0.3 percent of all patients in that branch. We’re talking about
(non-urgent) neurosurgery (2.6 percent), urology and internal medicine
(1.8 percent) and even cardiovascular surgery (1.3 percent). These
figures are only estimates, based on a survey on physicians throughout
the country.

Nevertheless, they confirm a heavy trend that has plagued the
provinces–they are the ones managing the health care, not the national
government–since Canada implemented the single-payer system in the
1960s: waiting times are impeding care.