Any Canadians out there?

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 1, 2009

I have to ask what CF care is like for your family with the single payer system? Is care rationed? Are all the rumors true? I just don't buy it. Can you please give me some insight that you see on pros and cons of your healthcare vs US?

Please keep this respectful.

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 1, 2009

I have to ask what CF care is like for your family with the single payer system? Is care rationed? Are all the rumors true? I just don't buy it. Can you please give me some insight that you see on pros and cons of your healthcare vs US?

Please keep this respectful.

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 1, 2009

I have to ask what CF care is like for your family with the single payer system? Is care rationed? Are all the rumors true? I just don't buy it. Can you please give me some insight that you see on pros and cons of your healthcare vs US?

Please keep this respectful.

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 1, 2009

I have to ask what CF care is like for your family with the single payer system? Is care rationed? Are all the rumors true? I just don't buy it. Can you please give me some insight that you see on pros and cons of your healthcare vs US?

Please keep this respectful.

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 1, 2009

I have to ask what CF care is like for your family with the single payer system? Is care rationed? Are all the rumors true? I just don't buy it. Can you please give me some insight that you see on pros and cons of your healthcare vs US?
 
 Please keep this respectful.

Gnome · Sep 1, 2009

I am Canadian I have to say the Canadian System has both good and bad things about it. I personally am not a fan and would like the system to be changed to the Europeon Model which is a mix of private and public. I would say the care for a CF child is great. There are other places where the shortfalls appear.

Where the system has trouble is when somebody who is usually healthy is really sick and needs a doctor now. Like a few weeks ago, I who don't have CF or any health problems but had a dry hacking cough that I had for weeks. I knew it was more than a regular cough but I couldn't get a doctor because mine was on vacation. Well I could of if I went to a walk in clinic and waited an unknown amount of time (minutes hours?). I also have two small children and this is not practical. Well I went to a naturalpath because I just wanted somebody to check my cough and I knew I could get into one. He was able to tell me that the cough wasn't in my lungs and gave me some natualpathic remedy for it. But it didn't solve the problem.

It didn't solve the problem. Well I ended up leaving my cough long enough and coughing hard enough one night that I hurt my lungs really bad. Like the pain was excruciating. I started crying not only because it hurt really bad when I coughed but because now I had to go to emergency where they would triage me and again I could be waiting either minutes or hours. Well my husband phoned the Healthlink and they eventually got the doctor on call to talk to me I explained my pain and problem to. The doctor refered me to a 24 hour walk in clinic where I got seen fairly quickly. They diagnosed me with Asthma a mild case perhaps.

Gnome · Sep 1, 2009

I am Canadian I have to say the Canadian System has both good and bad things about it. I personally am not a fan and would like the system to be changed to the Europeon Model which is a mix of private and public. I would say the care for a CF child is great. There are other places where the shortfalls appear.

Where the system has trouble is when somebody who is usually healthy is really sick and needs a doctor now. Like a few weeks ago, I who don't have CF or any health problems but had a dry hacking cough that I had for weeks. I knew it was more than a regular cough but I couldn't get a doctor because mine was on vacation. Well I could of if I went to a walk in clinic and waited an unknown amount of time (minutes hours?). I also have two small children and this is not practical. Well I went to a naturalpath because I just wanted somebody to check my cough and I knew I could get into one. He was able to tell me that the cough wasn't in my lungs and gave me some natualpathic remedy for it. But it didn't solve the problem.

It didn't solve the problem. Well I ended up leaving my cough long enough and coughing hard enough one night that I hurt my lungs really bad. Like the pain was excruciating. I started crying not only because it hurt really bad when I coughed but because now I had to go to emergency where they would triage me and again I could be waiting either minutes or hours. Well my husband phoned the Healthlink and they eventually got the doctor on call to talk to me I explained my pain and problem to. The doctor refered me to a 24 hour walk in clinic where I got seen fairly quickly. They diagnosed me with Asthma a mild case perhaps.

Gnome · Sep 1, 2009

I am Canadian I have to say the Canadian System has both good and bad things about it. I personally am not a fan and would like the system to be changed to the Europeon Model which is a mix of private and public. I would say the care for a CF child is great. There are other places where the shortfalls appear.

Where the system has trouble is when somebody who is usually healthy is really sick and needs a doctor now. Like a few weeks ago, I who don't have CF or any health problems but had a dry hacking cough that I had for weeks. I knew it was more than a regular cough but I couldn't get a doctor because mine was on vacation. Well I could of if I went to a walk in clinic and waited an unknown amount of time (minutes hours?). I also have two small children and this is not practical. Well I went to a naturalpath because I just wanted somebody to check my cough and I knew I could get into one. He was able to tell me that the cough wasn't in my lungs and gave me some natualpathic remedy for it. But it didn't solve the problem.

It didn't solve the problem. Well I ended up leaving my cough long enough and coughing hard enough one night that I hurt my lungs really bad. Like the pain was excruciating. I started crying not only because it hurt really bad when I coughed but because now I had to go to emergency where they would triage me and again I could be waiting either minutes or hours. Well my husband phoned the Healthlink and they eventually got the doctor on call to talk to me I explained my pain and problem to. The doctor refered me to a 24 hour walk in clinic where I got seen fairly quickly. They diagnosed me with Asthma a mild case perhaps.

Gnome · Sep 1, 2009

I am Canadian I have to say the Canadian System has both good and bad things about it. I personally am not a fan and would like the system to be changed to the Europeon Model which is a mix of private and public. I would say the care for a CF child is great. There are other places where the shortfalls appear.

Where the system has trouble is when somebody who is usually healthy is really sick and needs a doctor now. Like a few weeks ago, I who don't have CF or any health problems but had a dry hacking cough that I had for weeks. I knew it was more than a regular cough but I couldn't get a doctor because mine was on vacation. Well I could of if I went to a walk in clinic and waited an unknown amount of time (minutes hours?). I also have two small children and this is not practical. Well I went to a naturalpath because I just wanted somebody to check my cough and I knew I could get into one. He was able to tell me that the cough wasn't in my lungs and gave me some natualpathic remedy for it. But it didn't solve the problem.

It didn't solve the problem. Well I ended up leaving my cough long enough and coughing hard enough one night that I hurt my lungs really bad. Like the pain was excruciating. I started crying not only because it hurt really bad when I coughed but because now I had to go to emergency where they would triage me and again I could be waiting either minutes or hours. Well my husband phoned the Healthlink and they eventually got the doctor on call to talk to me I explained my pain and problem to. The doctor refered me to a 24 hour walk in clinic where I got seen fairly quickly. They diagnosed me with Asthma a mild case perhaps.

Gnome · Sep 1, 2009

I am Canadian I have to say the Canadian System has both good and bad things about it. I personally am not a fan and would like the system to be changed to the Europeon Model which is a mix of private and public. I would say the care for a CF child is great. There are other places where the shortfalls appear.
 
 Where the system has trouble is when somebody who is usually healthy is really sick and needs a doctor now. Like a few weeks ago, I who don't have CF or any health problems but had a dry hacking cough that I had for weeks. I knew it was more than a regular cough but I couldn't get a doctor because mine was on vacation. Well I could of if I went to a walk in clinic and waited an unknown amount of time (minutes hours?). I also have two small children and this is not practical. Well I went to a naturalpath because I just wanted somebody to check my cough and I knew I could get into one. He was able to tell me that the cough wasn't in my lungs and gave me some natualpathic remedy for it. But it didn't solve the problem.
 
 It didn't solve the problem. Well I ended up leaving my cough long enough and coughing hard enough one night that I hurt my lungs really bad. Like the pain was excruciating. I started crying not only because it hurt really bad when I coughed but because now I had to go to emergency where they would triage me and again I could be waiting either minutes or hours. Well my husband phoned the Healthlink and they eventually got the doctor on call to talk to me I explained my pain and problem to. The doctor refered me to a 24 hour walk in clinic where I got seen fairly quickly. They diagnosed me with Asthma a mild case perhaps.

julieann1966 · Sep 4, 2009

Hi, we are in Canada and I would agree there is good and bad, as far as CF care, we have no complaints, they have been fantastic, her enzymes and vitamins are completely covered and so far that is all she has been on.

If I call anyone on her CF team, they get back to me usually the same day, we have never been left hanging.

I do sometimes find that you have to ask the right questions to find out the answer...cryptic I know, but as far as government funding etc, we have had to research on our own and some of the things we have found out we have just stumbled on the information by accident whilst looking for something else.

We did buy her the Respirtech inCourage Vest and that came out of our own pocket, it will be nice when the insurance companies start covering it the way they seem to do south of the border.

Our daughters Pediatrician has been excellent, although not completely 100% on CF he has always fitted her in when we needed to just check on symptoms before heading to the CF clinic.

As for our original doctor, useless...we kept taking her in to see him constantly for 14 months and then ended up yelling at him and demanding to have a specialist see our daughter immediately, he totally dismissed our concerns about her not having gained any weight and implied that I was over reacting, the specialist had her booked for a sweat test within weeks and she was diagnosed 24 hours later, needless to say I have not been back to the original doctor as I am still so angry at his arrogance that he knew better than we did. Funny thing is, according to our CF doctor, she has all the markers for a child with the disease, even he couldn't understand why they wouldn't listen to us.

CF care has been excellent, just shop around for a good family doctor and insist on having a pediatrician for your CF child.

Anymore questions just send me a note and I will get back to you.

julieann1966 · Sep 4, 2009

Hi, we are in Canada and I would agree there is good and bad, as far as CF care, we have no complaints, they have been fantastic, her enzymes and vitamins are completely covered and so far that is all she has been on.

If I call anyone on her CF team, they get back to me usually the same day, we have never been left hanging.

I do sometimes find that you have to ask the right questions to find out the answer...cryptic I know, but as far as government funding etc, we have had to research on our own and some of the things we have found out we have just stumbled on the information by accident whilst looking for something else.

We did buy her the Respirtech inCourage Vest and that came out of our own pocket, it will be nice when the insurance companies start covering it the way they seem to do south of the border.

Our daughters Pediatrician has been excellent, although not completely 100% on CF he has always fitted her in when we needed to just check on symptoms before heading to the CF clinic.

As for our original doctor, useless...we kept taking her in to see him constantly for 14 months and then ended up yelling at him and demanding to have a specialist see our daughter immediately, he totally dismissed our concerns about her not having gained any weight and implied that I was over reacting, the specialist had her booked for a sweat test within weeks and she was diagnosed 24 hours later, needless to say I have not been back to the original doctor as I am still so angry at his arrogance that he knew better than we did. Funny thing is, according to our CF doctor, she has all the markers for a child with the disease, even he couldn't understand why they wouldn't listen to us.

CF care has been excellent, just shop around for a good family doctor and insist on having a pediatrician for your CF child.

Anymore questions just send me a note and I will get back to you.

julieann1966 · Sep 4, 2009

Hi, we are in Canada and I would agree there is good and bad, as far as CF care, we have no complaints, they have been fantastic, her enzymes and vitamins are completely covered and so far that is all she has been on.

If I call anyone on her CF team, they get back to me usually the same day, we have never been left hanging.

I do sometimes find that you have to ask the right questions to find out the answer...cryptic I know, but as far as government funding etc, we have had to research on our own and some of the things we have found out we have just stumbled on the information by accident whilst looking for something else.

We did buy her the Respirtech inCourage Vest and that came out of our own pocket, it will be nice when the insurance companies start covering it the way they seem to do south of the border.

Our daughters Pediatrician has been excellent, although not completely 100% on CF he has always fitted her in when we needed to just check on symptoms before heading to the CF clinic.

As for our original doctor, useless...we kept taking her in to see him constantly for 14 months and then ended up yelling at him and demanding to have a specialist see our daughter immediately, he totally dismissed our concerns about her not having gained any weight and implied that I was over reacting, the specialist had her booked for a sweat test within weeks and she was diagnosed 24 hours later, needless to say I have not been back to the original doctor as I am still so angry at his arrogance that he knew better than we did. Funny thing is, according to our CF doctor, she has all the markers for a child with the disease, even he couldn't understand why they wouldn't listen to us.

CF care has been excellent, just shop around for a good family doctor and insist on having a pediatrician for your CF child.

Anymore questions just send me a note and I will get back to you.

julieann1966 · Sep 4, 2009

Hi, we are in Canada and I would agree there is good and bad, as far as CF care, we have no complaints, they have been fantastic, her enzymes and vitamins are completely covered and so far that is all she has been on.

If I call anyone on her CF team, they get back to me usually the same day, we have never been left hanging.

I do sometimes find that you have to ask the right questions to find out the answer...cryptic I know, but as far as government funding etc, we have had to research on our own and some of the things we have found out we have just stumbled on the information by accident whilst looking for something else.

We did buy her the Respirtech inCourage Vest and that came out of our own pocket, it will be nice when the insurance companies start covering it the way they seem to do south of the border.

Our daughters Pediatrician has been excellent, although not completely 100% on CF he has always fitted her in when we needed to just check on symptoms before heading to the CF clinic.

As for our original doctor, useless...we kept taking her in to see him constantly for 14 months and then ended up yelling at him and demanding to have a specialist see our daughter immediately, he totally dismissed our concerns about her not having gained any weight and implied that I was over reacting, the specialist had her booked for a sweat test within weeks and she was diagnosed 24 hours later, needless to say I have not been back to the original doctor as I am still so angry at his arrogance that he knew better than we did. Funny thing is, according to our CF doctor, she has all the markers for a child with the disease, even he couldn't understand why they wouldn't listen to us.

CF care has been excellent, just shop around for a good family doctor and insist on having a pediatrician for your CF child.

Anymore questions just send me a note and I will get back to you.

julieann1966 · Sep 4, 2009

Hi, we are in Canada and I would agree there is good and bad, as far as CF care, we have no complaints, they have been fantastic, her enzymes and vitamins are completely covered and so far that is all she has been on.
 
 If I call anyone on her CF team, they get back to me usually the same day, we have never been left hanging.
 
 I do sometimes find that you have to ask the right questions to find out the answer...cryptic I know, but as far as government funding etc, we have had to research on our own and some of the things we have found out we have just stumbled on the information by accident whilst looking for something else.
 
 We did buy her the Respirtech inCourage Vest and that came out of our own pocket, it will be nice when the insurance companies start covering it the way they seem to do south of the border.
 
 Our daughters Pediatrician has been excellent, although not completely 100% on CF he has always fitted her in when we needed to just check on symptoms before heading to the CF clinic.
 
 As for our original doctor, useless...we kept taking her in to see him constantly for 14 months and then ended up yelling at him and demanding to have a specialist see our daughter immediately, he totally dismissed our concerns about her not having gained any weight and implied that I was over reacting, the specialist had her booked for a sweat test within weeks and she was diagnosed 24 hours later, needless to say I have not been back to the original doctor as I am still so angry at his arrogance that he knew better than we did. Funny thing is, according to our CF doctor, she has all the markers for a child with the disease, even he couldn't understand why they wouldn't listen to us.
 
 CF care has been excellent, just shop around for a good family doctor and insist on having a pediatrician for your CF child.
 
 Anymore questions just send me a note and I will get back to you.

kaylee04cassidy08 · Sep 4, 2009