What are some similarities between Frances Healthcare system and Canadas?
Neither is free. Because their systems are public, all of the money hospitals receive come from taxes which are significantly higher than in the United States. Another problem is health care rationing. This means that the amount of care a physician provides is finite. If a physician works from 9 to 5, he will literally stop seeing patients at 5PM. This is not the case in the US. The reason you hear that patients often wait over an hour at the clinic is that doctors overbook their schedules. It may be inconvenient, but it is actually a good thing. If doctors do not overbook their schedules, then suppose 1 in 10 patients don’t show up at their appointment. Then between 9 and 5, almost an hour is wasted with an empty examination room. When doctors overbook their schedules, they make use of their valuable time between 9 and 5, and it may actually take until 6 or 7PM in order to see the last patient of the day. You may ask why clinics and doctors don’t change their schedules to Mondays to F
