Canada

I'm in the 20% without access to a doctor and I am completely unable to have regular checkups or health issues looked at. It's extremely frustrating knowing it could be better managed

I read a lot of fanciful books to my young son, but the most outlandish one of all is where the little girl goes to a checkup with her family doctor.

ive been doctorless for years. good thing people don't have check engine lights

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The CMAJ study, led by family physicians and researchers at the University of Toronto and published on Monday, compares the Canadian healthcare system with those of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the UK.

Among the study’s chief conclusions is that countries that design healthcare systems around the principle of guaranteed access have far different – and usually better – outcomes than those in Canada.

Important comparative differences included higher rates of primary care funding, more doctors, better organisation and information systems support and greater physician accountability to the public insurer.

Kiran said that more and more Canadian medical school graduates are losing their appetite for the self-employed, fee-for-service model on which Canada currently relies in favour of greater work-life balance.

With shifts like these, the CMAJ study suggests Canada may be forced to chose between continuing to pour money into a broken system, and reimagining it entirely.

Kiran said a chief lesson to learn from other countries with public systems is that universal healthcare can work when it is designed and funded with intention.

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