Re: Universal Health Care
Canadian doctors make really good money. Not as much as in the states but still decent. And its not like all doctors are payed the same, some are salaried, but others are on fee for service plans where they bill (in ontario at least) OHIP for the services they do. This means that they make more money depending on which types of patients they see and how often. The problem is that some problems that take longer amounts of time (like mental health/addiction) do not pay more money then straight checkups, so doctors are less likely to accept new patients to their practice who have complicated problems (IE drug addict/and smoker/With mental health problems)
This may be a lil biased since i was volunteering this spring in an addiction medicine clinic and so got their point of view on the issue.
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