Are you Canadian? Can you tell us more please?
No but I have relatives and church friends there. Also know that for many rural communities there are no doctors, and a lot of times even if there are, they won’t take new patients, especially pregnant women.
I can tell you more-I have a sis-in-law in Canuckistan. Took her six months to get stents when it only takes a day or two here. AND, she was was called in twice during that period, told she was going to have the surgery, only to hang around the hospital all day and be sent home.
TRUE STORY!
I am Brit living in Canada...all of my life I have lived under some form of government Health Care...first in the UK then 8 years in the Air Force followed by 30 years under the Canadian Health Care system. I consider myself far more of an expert on Medicare than most people on here.
I am 80 years old and in pretty good health apart from diabetes which can be annoying at times. I had a bout with colon cancer 6 years ago..I was taken into hospital on a Thursday and operated on the next day..pretty much the same thing when I had a battle with gall bladder...in one day and out feeling great 4 days later.
All in all I have had very good treatment from all aspects of the various health care systems I have had to use. All the scaremongers who come on here and talk about Canadians dying in hallways ond on sidewalks...waiting 20 years for a hip replacement etc..are full of it! Sure there are waiting lists..sure there are occasions when people drop through the cracks...but this stuff happens in any walk of life.
Trust me when I tell you Canadians for the most part are well treated by their Health Care system. I don’t think that many of us feel that our government is trying to bump us off. Except the moonbats who think the sky is falling every five minutes.
Now I will tell you what is wrong with Government Health Care. First of all we don’t produce enough doctors and nursing staff to fill all vacancies. There are doctors from India and Pakistan working here but the majority of them are legal Canadians who are very fine physicians..(we are a multi racial country after all).
Doctors who graduate and go south to the States soon return after they learn the horrible cost of insurance against certain lawsuits. Working as a doctor in the greatest country on earth must be a hair raising experience..when you think that every move you make could bankrupt you for life and ruin your career. If I was a doctor the US would be the last place on earth I would want to work in.
If I could make changes to Health Care I would try to work out a system of part government and part private health care. We have a sort of system like that here in Alberta but not quite worked out properly yet.
In short...don’t go off on a tangent vilifying every other country that is trying to work out a decent and fair system of Health Care. Try and get sensible and come up with a system that will work for everybody in the USA.
Just remember you can’t please all of the people all of the time...and when you read about governments trying to kill off the elderly take a deep breath and consider it carefully. It is never going to happen..partly because I am armed and dangerous when someone is trying to deep six me!