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Originally Posted by hcap
Yes. Just found this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health...Private_sector
About 27.6% of Canadians' healthcare is paid for through the private sector. This mostly goes towards services not covered or partially covered by Medicare, such as prescription drugs, dentistry and optometry. Some 75% of Canadians have some form of supplementary private health insurance; many of them receive it through their employers.
"Although there are laws prohibiting or curtailing private health care in some provinces, they can be changed", according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.[47][48] In June 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General) that Quebec's prohibition against private health insurance for medically necessary services laws violated the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, potentially opening the door to much more private sector participation in the health system. Justices Beverley McLachlin, Jack Major, Michel Bastarache and Marie Deschamps found for the majority. "Access to a waiting list is not access to health care", wrote Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin.
The Quebec and federal governments asked the high court to suspend its ruling for 18 months. Less than two months after its initial ruling, the court agreed to suspend its decision for 12 months, retroactive to June 9, 2005.[49]
My original statement that almost all of western industrialized healthcare is a MIX of socialism and the private market is correct |
That article is misleading, the majority of that % that they count as "private" is paid by employers. My dental, drugs and eyewear arepaid for by my employer as part of my income, if you are 18 or under or 65 and over everything is covered by the government because those people don't work, I would say the number is closer to 5% for things like massages and elective physiotherapy that are considered non-essential, don't use wiki-anything as a reference it's posted by some Joe Shmo
