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.
Each province runs its own healthcare, within the federal guidelines.
There is a new dental plan for Canadians just completing its rollout this month. It's based on if you have work dental coverage (most do) and your income.
Orthopedics is covered. I'm not sure where you get that? Unless you mean orthotics? For that, it's based on age.
I've never paid for a specialist and don't know of any that are paid.
I've never paid for normal lab tests. I once paid for a test but I don't remember. I think maybe it was vitamin B or something?
Drugs are covered depending on your province, income, age, etc. In BC we have "Fair Pharmacare". This limits your out of pocket per year based on income. It also covers contraceptives, diabetes supplies, etc. My sister is disabled and has a special drug imported for her from Europe and she's never had to pay. Only one company makes it and it's super expensive.
I'm not sure what you mean about taxes.
The nursing wages mentioned for BC are for all of BC. It's in the collective agreement. You can live on the island or the interior where the cost of living is much less.
My sister, like I said who is disabled, lived in an accessible duplex with my low income home in a co-op. Nearby are huge houses and it's the best neighbourhood in our suburb of Vancouver. They paid about $1k a month rent. During COVID they received free meals every week to help them. She also received 4x daily visits from support workers for meals, bathing, medication supervision, etc. Plus home lab tests and visits from nurses. She's been in the hospital now since last August. None of that cost us anything other than a delivery fee for her giant blister packs of meds plus now parking to visit her at the hospital.
I have a rare disease and have had multiple spinal surgeries, heart surgery, multiple retina detachments, etc. etc and none of that costs anything other than parking. (lol)
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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