Eight doctors from the U.S.-based Physicians for a National Health Program visited Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital for an inside look at Canada’s single-payer health care system.
Hosting the trip was family physician Danielle Martin, chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare. New York dermatologist Elizabeth Rosenthal, board member of the New York metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, spoke to The Globe and Mail about what she learned during her visit.
Your association of 18,000 physicians has long advocated for a single-payer health care system in the United States. Canadians cherish medicare but are mindful of its limits. What are your thoughts?
You think there are all these things wrong, and we’re all sitting here drooling. This is our ultimate universe.
Any time doctors mention anything, they say it’s all covered and patients don’t have to worry about paying for it.
