[lit-ideas] Re: health care

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:25:04 -0500

In Ontario, we don't pay for a doctor's visit.  We don't pay for a catscan.
The amoxycillin, I can't say, because my insurance at the school here 
pays it all.
It also pays for eyeglasses and dental procedures.  

The government publishes a fee schedule, of course, for all medical 
procedures, but I'd have to research that.  Don't have it to hand.  

My mother has had three major brain surgeries to remove a tumour which 
keeps coming back.  The first was in the US in the late 70s and, even 
with her blue cross, she paid on this for years.   The other two were 
both done in Toronto after she immigrated to Canada and she never paid a 
penny.

Our taxes are higher, but I don't complain.
Ursula

JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Judy, Teemu, Erin, John, anyone else outside of the US -- I'm curious --  
>what does a standard Doctor's office visit cost you, in U.S. dollars?  What  
>would a regimine of 10 days of amoxicillan run?   or a CAT scan?  ($1600 here 
>for 
>a CAT skan of my daughter's ankle).  I'm interested in a  comparison of fees 
>for pharaceudicals and physician services between the U.S.  and other 
>countries.  
> 
>Julie Krueger
>
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