Law Library of Congress has some detailed info re:
Canada's HealthCare/Doctors/Malpractise etc.
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/medical-...ity/canada.php
You're right about that Ron - it is a cultural mindset.
Canada has also experienced population growth with huge influxes of that growth from immigration.
While the system tries to be all things to all people at times it does fall short at times...but it tries and that's better than not doing anything at all. Taking the most important thing to a person, their health, and making it into a money maker for people/businesses/doctors/hospitals who only care about the bottom line with huge profits while people die from lack of care or lose their homes due to huge medical bills is beyond belief to me. I really have a hard time grasping that reality.
I don't need a special insurance card that is accepted at only specific hospitals or doctors or clinics, I can be anywhere and if needed I can walk into a clinic for any reason and be seen without any questions asked or bills received. That goes for emergency room visits, ambulance rides and hospital stays with required physician care and operating room services.
Lightfoot is a perfect example of all of that including the life saving ORNGE helicopter ambulance service that flew from Toronto to Orillia, picked him up and flew him to Hamilton.
If he received any bills I am sure they were negligible in respect to the care he received.
Without our health in good order, be it mental or physical, we can't be the people we need to be to contribute to society.