Posted on 04/28/2016 4:37:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have lived in both countries, have been on both private and public plans, and for the most part, accept the points made in the article.
Obviously, some of the people spouting talking points and ideological rhetoric didn’t even read the article.
Could you do me the favor of watching this short video and tell me why it is happening to these Canadian women in a country with such a great healthcare system as Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2n8JxYXgs
Like I couldn’t find videos criticizing various aspects of the U.S. system.
I believe the author fairly pointed out strong and weak points of the Canadian healthcare system.
Regarding point 3, a lot of us voted for Mark Steyn... just saying.
RE: Mark Steyn
What’s he running for?
It would be interesting if someone could figure out the exact right mix of everything and let it do its thing. But alas! Politicians have created too many "needy" folks (wards of the State/Nation) to allow such to happen.
The elephant missing from the list is the control the government has on the doctors. European OB/Gyns who are pro-life have to drop the specialty and go into private practice if they won’t perform abortions. It is no secret that doctors in general are being required to participate in Euthanasia. No conscience clauses. Obamacare is pulling us in the same direction.
Not the ACA has been about government control and power. Health insurance rates and health care costs are still nonsensical
Docs are retiring. Docs are no longer taking certain types of insurance. Docs have moved into conserve care. The nursing shortage is so acute the country may or may not catch up.
You may have seen something like a Kaiser or a big city hospital doing well. The rest are not. In southern california you are hard pressed to find an open emergency room.
This will get worse never better until Ocare is repealed and rational policies are instituted; starting wth allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines
Not one hour after those comments last night my wife told me a good friend of hers — 53 or so — is bleeding, has pain in the abdomen and just got back from the ER when they did an ultrasound and said “something is in there”, with an implication it could be malignant. She is uninsured (possibly could have paid for company medical insurance but didn’t elect to do so) and it appears nothing beyond the ultrasound will be done without payment. Now I think that in British Columbia (where I lived) that she might have had a biopsy by now and her path for treatment would be clearer (even if she had to wait some time for more conclusive imaging). If it is cancer, I believe chemo is readily available up there, not sure about radiation. We are worried about her. Even if not malignant, there is a pathology that needs treatment. She is, incidentally, an extremely generous person, gave my mother rides to church and donated/built bunkbeds for a poor mother with many children and many other things.
It was something stupid that the CBC did about 10 years ago... the Search for the Greatest Canadian. There were a few scientists in the list plus Don Cherry and the rest were basically all far left politicians. What worth could any such list be if David Suzuki’s name showed up in it? Steyn was my write in vote and I tried to encourage others to do the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian
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