>In my opinion, the best yardstick for a health care system is how long you have to wait to be treated for cancer.
To quote a famous movie: well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion.
Why would the wait time (and not treatment outcome, or rate of occurrence) for one group of diseases be a good metric for evaluating the overall performance of a healthcare system?
In my opinion, it's a horrible metric. To give a car analogy, the 0 to 60 time in snow while towing is surely a metric, but there are other things to consider as well when you are buying a vehicle.
>[Canadians] come to the US because they have an expensive potentially fatal medical condition, and they might not survive a six month waiting period for treatment.
A lot to unpack here! But, first, the TL;DR is no[1].
More specifically:
1)Cite sources on people and England and Canada having six-month waiting period on cancer treatments in cases where urgent intervention is deemed necessary ("might not survive").
2)Look at the number of those cases.
3)Compare and contrast with similar cases in the US when people don't get treated because they don't have the money.
4)Look at the numbers again.
5)Look at how many Canadians do come to the US (in absolute numbers, as a percent of the Canadian population, and as a percent of patients seeking the particular treatment).
6)Stop perpetuating misleading opinions.
I won't cite the numbers - that's your homework when making bold claims. I found the numbers hard to find, which means to me that your claims are likely not substantiated.
Rather than pull up the specific data regarding US/UK/Canada, I'll just reply with a link to a general overview of how free (but rationed) government provided health care compares to what exists in the USA:
To quote a famous movie: well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion.
Why would the wait time (and not treatment outcome, or rate of occurrence) for one group of diseases be a good metric for evaluating the overall performance of a healthcare system?
In my opinion, it's a horrible metric. To give a car analogy, the 0 to 60 time in snow while towing is surely a metric, but there are other things to consider as well when you are buying a vehicle.
>[Canadians] come to the US because they have an expensive potentially fatal medical condition, and they might not survive a six month waiting period for treatment.
A lot to unpack here! But, first, the TL;DR is no[1].
More specifically:
1)Cite sources on people and England and Canada having six-month waiting period on cancer treatments in cases where urgent intervention is deemed necessary ("might not survive").
2)Look at the number of those cases.
3)Compare and contrast with similar cases in the US when people don't get treated because they don't have the money.
4)Look at the numbers again.
5)Look at how many Canadians do come to the US (in absolute numbers, as a percent of the Canadian population, and as a percent of patients seeking the particular treatment).
6)Stop perpetuating misleading opinions.
I won't cite the numbers - that's your homework when making bold claims. I found the numbers hard to find, which means to me that your claims are likely not substantiated.
I'll be glad to be proven wrong here.
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/...