Posted on 07/26/2007 6:54:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
I was once a believer in socialized medicine. As a Canadian, I had soaked up the belief that government-run health care was truly compassionate. What I knew about American health care was unappealing: high expenses and lots of uninsured people.
My health care prejudices crumbled on the way to a medical school class. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute.
Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care.
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I know a person living in canada who was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and was scheduled to have this taken care of surgically - six months down the road.
Progressive free thinker (”a conservative”)= a liberal who just got mugged.
Unimaginable. Too bad we can't make Hillary go and sit in one of these ERs for 5 days (or a few years), so she would FINALLY understand that socialized medicine is NOT the way to go.
Many Canadians have chosen to come to the US for bariatric surgery because of the shortage of surgeons there and the lengthy wait time. Their OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) pays for it if they’re Ontario citizens. Lew, in Ks.
Exactly. It’s easy to save money on services if you just don’t provide the services.
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