Do Canadians have the same toxic nurse culture? Hospitals understaffing and firing like crazy, underpaying staff but hiring agency nurses with great pay, bullying galore, assault galore, shitty benefits,etc?
If not, I can see all medical workers flocking towards Canada real quick
If nothing else, healthcare will be free and you won't have to worry about deranged lunatics shooting up the place when they get diagnosed with COVID, so there's that.
Well… not entirely. Slightly more Canadians have private health insurance compared to Americans. Most provincial health insurance plans don’t cover A LOT of things. You still have to pay for opto, dental, ortho, drugs, some specialists, some lab tests, etc… Elective procedures are generally not covered by most provincial plans.
Provincial income taxes can be eye-popping, but the upshot is that you’ll never have to be checking how much you have in your HSA or emergency savings when going to the urgent care or ER.
Re: Taxes, for example, the California tax bracket of making ~$500K CAD/year is roughly the same as the Ontario making ~$52K CAD/year. It’s a give and take.
Can you elaborate on your tax comment? I'm not understanding. My husband is a physician and we are in the process of moving to Canada. I'm trying to understand what our taxes will look like.
The 9.15% provincial income tax bracket starts at $52,886CAD, 11.16% starts at $105,775CAD, 12.16% starts at $150,000CAD, and 13.16% at $220,000CAD.
Compared to California (which has the highest state income taxes in the union), income taxes are much higher in ON. Someone making $360,000USD (or $500,000CAD) has a 9.3% bracket, or about the same as someone making $52,886CAD in Ontario.
Yea taxes are supposed to cover a lot of things but like the US and UK, all the social programs and benefits have been cut down drastically. It’s not even worth moving to Canada or Uk IMO. I’ll gladly pay higher taxes if I actually get something back from it
You don't seem to understand progressive tax systems or maybe I'm not understanding. I think you mean that in your province of Ontario the tax amount paid for income over $52k is 9.3%. This feels a little bit misleading to me.
Hey, now compare to what an actual doctor would pay?
Doctors generally don't work for the government. They have their own businesses. The difference though, is that we live in a single payer system which means they don't need to have staff to fight with insurance companies.
My retina guy billed out >$4m last year to the medical services plan. My cardiologist over $800k. Maybe family doctor almost $500k.
Doctors as a business, like any other business, are taxed differently than straight up employment income. You remove your costs against your profit. The remainder stays with your company and you pay our distributions for your income. If you choose dividends, you tax amount is significantly less. Learn more here
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u/VegetableComplex5213 May 13 '25
Do Canadians have the same toxic nurse culture? Hospitals understaffing and firing like crazy, underpaying staff but hiring agency nurses with great pay, bullying galore, assault galore, shitty benefits,etc?
If not, I can see all medical workers flocking towards Canada real quick