Living away from Canada you encounter different health care systems; in Canada that provides virtually all its health care on a no-fee basis -- the user pay nothing; the system of allocation of the services is scarcity. Long wait in the emergency room, for noncritical care, but when it comes to critical care, Canada is second to none with outcome. Moreover, Canadians don't fear that their family will go broke caring for them.
Currently, I am in Mexico, and a friend recently took a bad fall -- nothing life-threatening, but still. this all happened Sunday evening (imagine the wait at Montreal's emergency room), we arrived at the local hospital (there was a bad cut on a leg) and my friend was immediately rolled into a treatment room -- she didn't wait 5 minutes (in fact she was already in the treatment room when I came back from parking the car.
Within 90 minutes she departed the hospital with 8 suture on her leg, and orthopedist had examined her other leg and told her that it was unlikely that she had torn a ligament.
Fast forward to today; my friend will, this afternoon, have an operation on her partly thorn ligament (the tear was shown with a CAT scan).
How much did this all cost:
Sunday night: MXN 3,500 (including medication)
Wednesday Exam: MXN 1,000 (including CAT scan)
Thursday operation: MXN 9,500
For a total of MXN 4,500 (CAD$ 300)
Percentage covered by here insurance: 100%
Currently, I am in Mexico, and a friend recently took a bad fall -- nothing life-threatening, but still. this all happened Sunday evening (imagine the wait at Montreal's emergency room), we arrived at the local hospital (there was a bad cut on a leg) and my friend was immediately rolled into a treatment room -- she didn't wait 5 minutes (in fact she was already in the treatment room when I came back from parking the car.
Within 90 minutes she departed the hospital with 8 suture on her leg, and orthopedist had examined her other leg and told her that it was unlikely that she had torn a ligament.
Fast forward to today; my friend will, this afternoon, have an operation on her partly thorn ligament (the tear was shown with a CAT scan).
How much did this all cost:
Sunday night: MXN 3,500 (including medication)
Wednesday Exam: MXN 1,000 (including CAT scan)
Thursday operation: MXN 9,500
For a total of MXN 4,500 (CAD$ 300)
Percentage covered by here insurance: 100%
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