>All doctor offices are basically private businesses, and there are private clinics that do X-rays, MRIs, CT scan,
>etc. (in addition to public institutions who offer these services). So we have private businesses in the Canadian
>system, it's just we (generally speaking) have only one payer (the provincial government), so prices are set
>(after being negotiated).
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>Most people don't know these things because the public system is generally "good enough" (even if wait times
>can be a bit long) so they don't go looking at these details, and also because 95% of the population don't have
>the money to do these things so it's a moot point.
You just contradicted yourself. If 95 percent cannot afford private care (at the rates the goverment is paying for standardized care, then aren't the rates that you say were negotiated to high??????