Canada is bracing for universal healthcare Stateside:
With all the presidential candidates vowing to extend health insurance coverage to the about 47 million Americans without it, Canada’s doctor supply will be raided, said Brian Day of the Canadian Medical Association.There’s no doubt the promise will be kept and have a dramatic effect on Canada’s supply of doctors, Vancouver-based Day said in London.
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This doesnt make any sense. When the US gets socialized medicine and doctor income falls, that will be GOOD for Canada because more doctors will stay there instead of leaving to the USA.
The high pay differential between the two countries is the reason they are leaving Canada. A reduction in that pay differential would result in Canada keeping a lot more of its doctors and getting some back who had left for hte states.
Their doctors will be coming here, to shop. If anything, working north of the border might become an attraction to USA docs, with the stronger loonie they have now.
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