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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 889246" data-attributes="member: 23950">You don&#039;t understand how our system works. A medical doctor in a hospital is on salary here.It don&#039;t matter how many tests he does, or how many surgerys he/she performs. Same pay.Billing is totally different - they don&#039;t charge for a pair of gloves for example that they bought the whole box for $5.00 and &quot;sell&quot; them back to the insurance company for $7.00 a pair !Instead the hospital gets a certain amount of money for the entire year to live on it&#039;s giving budget. They do get extra money for re-modeling or new equipment which the government pays for.Harper commented to a 6% anual increase in healthcare spending to adjust for inflation and more healthcare needs as the population grows older, and the provinces run their own healthcare services and foot around 60% of all costs, and make the healthcare decisions on their own.Anyways in short : Doctors don&#039;t have a black book, like car mechanics here (break job = 1.5 hrs x $90 per hr = $135 labor costs.That&#039;s how US doctors operate.Here they just do their job, and get paid for their days work. They have no incentive to either rush you thru the system so they can get more patients served and therefor more money, no do they have the incentive to do unneccesary tests, to earn more money.Our doctors just do their work, and do the best for their patients as they think is needed. Simple as that.A Canadian Patient doesn&#039;t have money signs all written over them !</blockquote>

[QUOTE="klein, post: 889246, member: 23950"] You don't understand how our system works. A medical doctor in a hospital is on salary here. It don't matter how many tests he does, or how many surgerys he/she performs. Same pay. Billing is totally different - they don't charge for a pair of gloves for example that they bought the whole box for $5.00 and "sell" them back to the insurance company for $7.00 a pair ! Instead the hospital gets a certain amount of money for the entire year to live on it's giving budget. They do get extra money for re-modeling or new equipment which the government pays for. Harper commented to a 6% anual increase in healthcare spending to adjust for inflation and more healthcare needs as the population grows older, and the provinces run their own healthcare services and foot around 60% of all costs, and make the healthcare decisions on their own. Anyways in short : Doctors don't have a black book, like car mechanics here (break job = 1.5 hrs x $90 per hr = $135 labor costs. That's how US doctors operate. Here they just do their job, and get paid for their days work. They have no incentive to either rush you thru the system so they can get more patients served and therefor more money, no do they have the incentive to do unneccesary tests, to earn more money. Our doctors just do their work, and do the best for their patients as they think is needed. Simple as that. A Canadian Patient doesn't have money signs all written over them ! [/QUOTE]

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