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Originally Posted by Wayne Maybury
This is a major problem with the Canadian system. Since it is "free" many people go to the hospital for the slightest ailment or in some cases because they are lonely. I firmly believe that there should be a nominal charge to visit a doctor or an ER. Firstly this would pump badly needed dollars into the system and secondly it would go a long way to reducing the over crowding. Unfortunately, none of our politicians have the guts to make this policy decision.
By the way, cosmetic surgery is not covered by Medicare in Canada.
Wayne
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Wayne,
Adding a charge would stop poor people from going to get most care except for emergency stuff. That is part of the problem we have now. Maybe adding a 'trivial care' charge for people that go in for stupid problems - it might make people think a little bit more about why they go in.
Cosmetic surgery should not be covered (except for reasonable reconstruction reasons), but sometimes the aftermath of that poorly executed surgery might be.
Steve