Canada Medicare System

Canada's national health insurance program, often referred to as "Medicare", is designed to ensure that all residents have reasonable access to medically necessary hospital and physician services, on a prepaid basis. Instead of having a single national plan, we have a national program that is composed of 13 interlocking provincial and territorial health insurance plans, all of which share certain common features and basic standards of coverage.

The Canadian Medicare system has got to be the most elite system on the planet, if you’re already dead that is, I am sure if you’re depending on it you will die soon. Over millions of Canadians do not have a family doctor. We have a shortage of Doctors however the government has seen fit to limit how many people can become doctors.

Clinics have been set up to reduce the stress on the hospital however unless you have all day to sit on the phone and keep calling them, you will have a hard time getting an appointment, and when you do it can only be for smaller issues.

We are forced to wait in emergency rooms for hours on end to get health care, one waiting room to another. When we finally get to see the doctor we are stamped like were on a conveyer belt and sent home. It is really not the poor Doctor’s fault you were one of his many that he/she has seen that day and many more.

Many experience long waits to see a specialist, get diagnostic tests and undergo elective surgery. Others find themselves facing huge bills for prescription drugs they need to survive.

Here is the best part when you look around the waiting room and your getting upset and say something under your breath, there is always at least one person there to tell us how lucky we are we don't have to pay for this and that we live in Canada. Bullshit we are paying through the nose for the stuff; it is eating at our tax dollars in the billions. Once you reply back with something like that, then their answer is, “Well at least it is not like other counties were only the rich can afford healthcare”. It is at that comment that I must agree, Canada doesn't discriminate due to wealth, color, creed or religion, we all just put in one long line up that goes forever, some die and some make it. Oh well, at least we don't have to pay for it.