ok , ok , now relax a bit...all our hospitals are moldy and creating SARS? come on now, go toot that horn somewhere else.
i live in New-Brunswick Canada, one of the poorest provinces in the country, pretty much every hospital is in great eye candy shape, the problem is that we dont have enough Doctors or General Practitioners to do the job.
there is nothing wrong with free healthcare, who could possibly complain about that??? The biggest problems are the people of Canada and the Physicians and the legislators.
Because of our * free healthcare* system, people flood the waiting rooms of local OBGYN offices with everything from a common cold to a scrapped knee, its pretty pathetic actually. Any given day, you can walk into any Extramural hospital that tries to assist a melting pot of small villages that have a total population of lets say 10k people, in there you will find people sitting in wait 10-15 people every hour waiting to see the local SUPER DOC, for anything and everything. Understand that most of these SUPER DOCS want all those patients names on a waiting list, * logged in* into the databanks so they( the SUPER DOCS ) can be compensated as they seem fit. Americans should know that these doctors are compensated by the provincial government by the number of cases they see each day, they accumulate the * points * and send the Gov't the paperwork to prove how hard they worked and wait for compensation...thats our beautiful system at work. The general population taking advantage of themselves by stealing from themselves...with the doctors all too willing to give them ( us ) a pat on the back and whoooosh us out as fast as we came in..." Here Mr. Gawd, take the piece of paper to your local Pharmacy and be rewarded for your wait, thank you for shopping at the Bank of Canada "...