[Libloather]

"But don't people have to wait weeks or months for special services?" Occasionally, was the response from another Canadian.

And can't a Canadian doctor decline medication because the patient isn't worth it?

Yes. (Pssssst - that's how the gubmint 'keeps costs down'.)

For your reading pleasure - Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits (crushed in only 40 years!)

[Uncle George]

I think all the MSM screaming, stomping and headlining of the Jackson death,(and stringing it out for weeks), is part of the Obama smokescreen to mask the health care farse, Poloski-CIA rumble, giving more BILLIONS to Fanny Mae,and 101 other sligh of hand lib trickery. The White House is in lock step with the MSM to ruin America.

[rlmorel]

David Gratzer: (A Manitoba-born physician who is an expert on and who worked in the Canadian Health Care System):
"Look north of the 49th parallel and you don't find a compassionate system. You find people waiting and, to use your words, in some cases dying...We need policy reform and regulatory reform and tax reform to build on what is good with this system and not to end up with a system far worse, like you see in Canada or Britain or right across the western world."

Charlie Rangel: (A crooked, socialist, liberal American hack politician):
"I think all of you have done a pretty good job of trashing the health-care system in Canada and in Ireland and in Europe, generally..."

Gee. Who ya gonna believe? I'm so conflicted.

[adanaC]

I’m Canadian and had a liver transplant 2 yrs ago. I was on government disability benefits and the operation cost me nothing. I get all my anti-rejection drugs for free.

If I’d lived in the States the transplant would have cost me $250,000 and the life time medications would be costing me $2,000 a month. I would have had to sell my home.

I had to wait for the transplant a long time, but they kept me in the hospital for almost a year before to keep me alive. I’m so happy to be alive.

Yes, I am so thankful that I didn’t lose my home and I’m living life to it’s fullest. I go RVing, kayaking and after going through hell, I’m not fiancially stressed.

Yes, we have to wait too long for hip replacements, MRI’s etc., but we’re working to improve those things.

I’m Conservative, and I’m thankful for our Health Care.

[Don Corleone]

Its lovingly called the "Halloween Health Care System" , 'cause they run out of money around Halloween and everyone has to get back in line and wait for next budget year.

Swell!!!!

[Snowyman]

And can't a Canadian doctor decline medication because the patient isn't worth it?

The flaw in your line is simply that the Canadian Health Care doesn't pay for or supply medication to patients .

btw, Some one should tell David Gratzer that when he says " a system where people in towns like Norwalk, Ontario, participate in lotteries to win appointments with the local family doctor." he's wrong on that one too . Norwalk Ontario, is not in Ontario. It's in Ohio.

[SuziQ]

Another Democrat pointed out that U.S. places well above Canada and the U.K. in infant mortality rates, and has a higher rate of patient deaths due to doctor error.

Some poorer women in the US don't bother getting pre-natal care, even though it's available through Medicaid. So that government health care that already exists isn't helping them in any way. As for higher rate of patient deaths, that's probably because there are more risky procedures done in the US, because there's more innovation with the private health care facilities.

One way to judge the two systems is to see how many US doctors are moving to Canada to practice medicine (I've never heard of any), compared with Canadian doctors heading south to the US.

[free_life]

Both the Canadian and American health systems are broken.

[socialismisinsidious]

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