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>but don't you guys have the ability to purchase a secondary health plan oop to mitigate that
In Canada you cannot get "extended health" to cover anything that is covered by Provincial Health Care, which they have to cover to comply w/ the Canada Health Act, which they have to comply with in order to get transfer payments to fund healthcare.
You also cannot set up a private clinic to do things that the public system covers. So you can set up as a cosmetic dermatologist (and if you need a dermatologist, you can "book an appointment" for something cosmetic, then have them look at whatever, while you pay, but if you call saying you want them to look at something covered by the public system, e.g. an infection, they technically cannot book you) but not as a "cosmetic" orthopedic surgeon, cardiologist, psychiatrist, GP, etc.
I am not saying Canada has a good system, it sounds like USA and Canada are both garbage, and, at the end of the day, you prob. eat a shit-tier diet controlled by a woman for the first 18 years of your life, unless you are lucky, and by that point substantial damage is done, possibly even prenatally. You can get right by eating right, lifting, etc. but not everyone can/will do this.
Ultimately, the doctor is an evil, we go to him because we're sick, not because we like being doctored, so the best thing to do is to avoid the doctor like the plague.