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Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 by adrr on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:32AM (#22647209)
"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.[63]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Canada

If a quarter of spending is paid by private, it isn't single payer.

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Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 by vidarh on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:20PM (#22649689)
By that argument there isn't any single payer healthcare systems in the world.

The reality is that when people talk about "single payer" they talk about systems where the essential services are insured by a single entity, not a system without any private healthcare, because none exists.

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Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 by erentz on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:38AM (#22647251)
No. You said that in Canada you can choose between the public insurer or a private insurer. You cannot. You framed this comparison incorrectly this way in order to promote the idea of a public option which is very different. In Canada everyone gets the public single payer insurance. The parts that the public single payer insurance does not cover can be covered by buying supplemental private insurance. That is not a public option scenario.
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Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 by surewhynat on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:40AM (#22647277)
You know healthcare isn't just dental and eye exams right? Canada covers 100% of everything that isn't dental and eye exams.

Also, your insulin shot doesn't cost $1000+ in Canada either. You're a troll, bolstering false information.

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Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 by adrr on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:28PM (#22647655)
Doesn't cover prescription drugs.
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