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  • You’re just exemplifying the inherent problem.

    People need housing. People without a house are a risk. People with houses won’t let people that need housing rent a house because of said risk. Thus we are back at the start where people need housing but can’t get it because of the broken system.

    You can talk about risk management until you’re blue in the face but it doesn’t change the fact that landlords are participating in a broken system that leaves real people in one of the worst situations you can be in.





  • Album@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHey, Canadians. How's your healthcare?
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    10 months ago

    I’ve lived in both US and Canada.

    In Canada, my mother had cancer stayed in a private room for weeks until she died and we only paid for the phone bill for her room and parking. I didn’t get a bill from the hospital at all. No claims on insurance.

    I had a baby in 2021 and again my wife had a private room while she recovered from her C section and my infant was in the NICU for a week. No bill from the hospital, no claims on insurance. Just paid for parking.

    My wife who is type 1 diabetic had 100% of her needs covered through the ontario healthcare system.

    I hear stories that in Ontario you have to wait for non-urgent care due to Premier Doug Ford not paying nurses enough, but I have not seen this personally.

    I had work coverage that provided dental, vision, and drug coverage if needed.

    In the US, I’m 100% dependent on work provided benefits AND I have to pay $4k a year for those benefits. Wife went for some routine work done and it was covered by work insurance. In ontario it would have been a no cost thing too, no dealing with insurance. We wouldn’t have waited in Ontario, we didn’t wait here either.

    There seem to be waits here for specialists. Haven’t had to go to the hospital for anything yet.




  • It’s not really about eating the costs of doing business. A restaurant doesn’t charge you $1 at the end of your bill for washing your fork, it’s just part of the cost of serving the dish and so your Salmon Rice dish is $18 not $17.

    The point is that the listed prices for services should either have these fees be built right into the price…as pretty much all businesses do…or if you’re going to put it at the end of the bill then it needs to be clearly defined per FCC.

    It’s a transparency problem. Not only is your $60 cell phone bill not actually $60 but then they also don’t tell you about the additional fees very well when they tack them on at the end. It’s gotta be one or the other, not neither.