A Calgary clinic informed its clients it would be introducing a “membership-based medical service,” running $4,800 a year for a two-parent family membership.

Such arrangements have been growing increasingly common in recent years, experts say.

  • PolarPerspective@discuss.onlineEnglish
    119·
    1 year ago

    I think a mixed system is fine. As long as robust public systems exist, I also am fine with private being there. I might go private myself if it meant I could get faster appointments and a doctor I could understand. My GP is booking 2 months in advance these days, and my only alternatives are doctors with such heavy foreign accents I can barely understand them. It’s only going to get worse with mass immigration.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      Sure, it’s fine. It’s fine that people with means can see a doctor quickly, while those without cannot. And it’s fine that the wealthy can get those tests done right away, and those scans complete day of, while everybody else is on a 6 - 12 month wait list.

      There’s totally nothing absolutely fucking evil about that. And it definitely incentivizes politicians to improve the public system for the poor.