Canadian health insurance

[mos_def]

To all my fellow posters that live in Canada,

how does your insurance work in Canada. I heard there were some tweaks a few years ago and I wanted to know.
The basic premise of it?
ANy special quarks or percs about it?
How it works outside Canada?

[Le Messor]

Any special quacks about it?

Doesn't that depend on what doctor you end up with?

[Legerd]

Here's a link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada) to a Wiki article about it and here's a link (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/index-eng.php) to the main page for Health Care on the government's website.

[Flightpath07]

It works like this - I pay. The government owes. You're covered. Taxes go up. The end. That's really all I know about it! (it's almost as big a Canadian government secret as Department H is!)

[Bill P]

It works like this - I pay. The government owes. You're covered. Taxes go up. The end. That's really all I know about it! (it's almost as big a Canadian government secret as Department H is!)


It may be complex (ie transfer payments to provinces and such) but its not secret.

I'd rather pay $35.00 a month (not even sure if that is the proper amount - my employer covers it) than have to worry about big medical bills.

[Flightpath07]

Secrecy lies within complexity. "Make it non-understandable, and they will come" (didn't Kevin Costner do a movie about that?).