A mom with a rare brain tumour has successfully undergone surgery that wasn’t available in Quebec, despite the province’s health insurance board denying her coverage.
A mom with a rare brain tumour has successfully undergone surgery that wasn’t available in Quebec, despite the province’s health insurance board denying her coverage.
It’s decent when it’s serious enough, but the worst case will obviously end up in the news.
There’s almost bo clinics you can visit without an appointment, so you need to call a hotline (8-1-1) to talk to someone who will ask some questions about your current medical condition and try to book you an appointment to the nearest clinic. Be ready to wait at the ER for a long time if you’re not a priority at the triage, but I’d rather wait than paying a fortune when I can’t see anyone else because all the clinics are full and you don’t have a family doctor.
All of that is true in the US too unless you have amazing (expensive) insurance or just pockets overflowing with money. It can take months to get an appointment with your Primary Care Physician so if you need to see someone sooner than that you can prob in to see a nurse sooner, or go to the Urgent Care. Either way you are paying Co-Pay (for me it was us$35) plus for your prescription. ER is very likely to be full of people who are injured or uninsured so have no other option. In the later case they have likely been putting off a visit to a DR for that very reason and are now desperate.