Candice is joined by Colin Craig of SecondStreet.Org to discuss his new documentary
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Summary
We're in Japan this week to learn more about their universal health care system, and how they have virtually no wait times. In this episode, we explore why this is such a big deal, and why it's so different from what we're used to.
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Well, one of the things is so interesting from the documentary is that they just don't really
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seem to have real wait times in Japan. I'm going to play a short trailer from the documentary,
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because you speak to a lot of people, people who work in hospitals, doctors, advocates,
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all this kind of thing. Most people say, you know, average, you wait like maybe a couple days or two
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weeks max when you need a surgery, which, you know, to the Canadian ear, it's like, wait, what?
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How is that even possible? Well, you explore that. So let's play this clip from the documentary,
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fixing Canada's health care lessons from Japan.
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We're in Japan this week to learn more about their universal health care system
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and how they have virtually no health care wait times.
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Do you have any wait times that are measured in years?
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You could see this sort of Japanese temperament, right?
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They're, they're, they're trying to be polite, but they're kind of shocked when
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you tell them about what things are like in Canada.
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Like, why is it that there's so much innovation, there's so many options,
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there's so many choices in Japan, and yet they're still able to maintain
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that universal coverage and people don't really pay that much out of pocket when
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they, when they have major surgeries or even doctor visits.
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That last doctor in the clip there, he was asking how long the wait times
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in Canada because he couldn't believe it when I said it was a year like they were shocked people
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over there were like stunned that Canadians would have to wait so long so to your question about
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how uh the big difference is that in Japan they welcome people to enter their health care sector
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and start providing care for patients I mean this is a novel concept but they want people to enter
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if you have a you know qualified staff obviously but you can go in and open up a clinic that maybe
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does knee surgery so maybe you open up a hospital they openly welcome it because the government
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doesn't really care who's providing it as long as it's you know qualified people and that they can
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help patients so the government sets the the rate for how much they will pay for different procedures
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and that and then everyone knows okay these are the terms of agreement if i enter the market then
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this is how much i'm going to get compensated for providing these different treatments for patients
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So it's much easier. It's very straightforward.