BEXTE: Alberta to let Canadians pay for an MRI before they're terminally ill
"For years, Canadians have lived under a healthcare system where access to modern medicine is treated like a scarce commodity."
The following article is the opinion of Keean Bexte, Co-Founder of Juno News
For years, Canadians have lived under a healthcare system where access to modern medicine is treated like a scarce commodity. If you don’t have symptoms, you don’t get tests. If your odds of being sick are low, you wait until you’re visibly ill, until you’re coughing up blood, or slurring your words from a stroke, before the system will “allow” you to find out what’s wrong.
Doctors will tell you it’s not their fault. They operate under a system that forces them to weigh your right to first-world care against the limits of the public purse. They know ordering a precautionary MRI or CT scan for peace of mind is career suicide inside Alberta Health Services’ bureaucracy. So they don’t. They tell you to wait, to monitor, to come back if things get worse.