Socialized Medicine fact check

"I don't mind paying more money for free medicine."

Anyway...

Canada has worst ER / referral wait times in 11 developed countries.

Canada’s healthcare wait times hit new record high, again.

Canada’s system of socialized medicine has created high taxes and suffering patients. That’s not what Americans want or deserve.

The healthcare costs in Canada are rising at a disproportionate rate: “For the average Canadian family, between 1997 and 2017, the cost of public health care insurance increased 3.2 times as fast as the cost of food, 2.7 times as fast as the cost of clothing, 1.9 times as fast as the cost of shelter, and 1.8 times faster than average income.”

Americans are more likely to see a specialist far more quickly than in Canada. “In the United States, 70% of patients are able to be seen by specialists less than four weeks after a referral,” a 2019 report detailed. “In Canada, less than 40% were seen inside of four weeks. After being advised that they need a procedure done, only about 35% of Canadians had their surgery within a month, whereas in the United States, 61% did. After four months, about 97% of Americans were able to have their surgery, whereas Canada struggled to achieve 80%.”

Canadians pay out-of-pocket health costs close to what Americans pay, yet Canada’s tax burden is 36 percent to 51 percent higher than America’s. These extra taxes are largely driven by government health care costs. Despite this tax burden, government rationing via “global budgets” leaves Canadians to face long waiting lists, shortages of equipment, outdated drugs, and endemic staff shortages.