Should health care be private or public?

[Joelcool7]

kowenicki said:

Joelcool7 said:

kowenicki said:

Rath said:
There you go again with the loaded poll.

Is it that hard to make the options simply

Public
Private
Mixed
Other (please explain)

Without putting your opinion in with the answers?



As for me I'm a fan of a mixed system with a strong public healthcare system but private for those who want to skip the waiting list.

Exactly.

In the UK we have both...  I still have to pay my contributions to the public system, but I also choose to have a private plan. 

Your mixed option has an opinion in it that stops me from clicking it.

Man I guess I did load the poll abit. Maybe I do over think things when I create the polls. However that is exactly how the system works does it not? If not that would be a great topic for discussion here in this thread.

Not really.

In the UK if I go private I will almost always see the same consultant as I would if I went the public "free" route....  I just see the consultant slightly quicker (except in emergency cases where you cant "queue jump") and I will get to recover in a more comfortable and luxurious hospital.

The actual treatment is unlikley to be much different, and the person performing the op will usually be the same person.

Huh interesting. The biggest fear in Canada is that wealthy people will get better treatment then the average citizen. Now you sorta confirm that a bit with the luxurious Hospital the question is how bad would the normal hospital be in comparison? I know my doctor wants private system because he says he'd make a crap load more money and that he'd leave the public system. If all the doctors left the public system for private due to higher pay and such the only ones who would be left wouldn't really give patients the same level of care.

I know here in my province the Liberal Government wants a private system running alongside the public. Their are already private clinics that will do non-life threatening proceedures for money. If you want to get a non-life threatening surgery done faster you can go to a private clinic. But that still seems wrong to me why should someone with more money be allowed to get his surgery faster then someone without?

I think it just goes against how I was raised and the fundementals of Canada's medical system. Though if I was sick and on a waiting list I would be tempted to skip the line if I had the cash. But I do think that it is wrong to treat me or anyone else differently because they have money.