[lowbridge]

In spite of the pics of people with smiling faces on these sites, this is scary stuff.

(I dont have the time to go through and post all the provinces and territories. You'll have to google them)

[Diogenesis]

[BuckyKat]

bump for later

[kittymyrib]

Guess we’ll all be flying to India for our medical care. Maybe Americans and Canadians can charter a plane depending on one’s illness: The Gall Bladder Express, The Prostate Dash, The Problem Pregnancy Get-Away, etc.

[Domandred]

That's just great. So when my appendix decides it's caught too much junk and explodes I have, at best, about a two month wait to get it removed. Weeee

(yes I know emergency surgery probably gets expedited)

[Oldpuppymax]

But Husseins plan will work just fine! Just make sure you don’t get sick!

[Professor_Leonide]

Wherever you find nationalized health care, there you also find waiting lists for the most mundane procedures.

[ElayneJ]

for later

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

But most Canadians are happy just not to hassle with routine bills and don’t care if the really sick die because they were probably smokers anyway and it won’t be me for a long long time.

[fanfan]

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[socialismisinsidious]

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[Stegall Tx]

Ah, one of my favorite web sites is http://www.sasksurgery.ca , where you can look up the waiting times for surgery in Saskachewan. When someone in the office starts spouting off about health care, I pull this site up on their machine, explain how to navigate around, and let them see how many people are waiting on surgery in this one province of Canada.

It's usually more effective to let them discover this on their own than argue the point.

That, or I let one of our co-workers tell the story about how her parents were offered the choice of paying for the birth of her brother versus having the government foot the bill. They chose to go to the government clinic even though they realized they would get much better service at the private hospital. The reason? They decided to use the money saved to purchase a new TV.

You can't make this stuff up. Well, you could, but you don't have to.