RE: Bernie doesn’t want Ocare either. He wants socialized medicine like Canada. Cruz is so unfamiliar with the Canadian system he couldn’t recite the negatives except to say Canadians flock to the US for treatment.
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My Canadian friend boasts that when his wife got pregnant and had to deliver their child, she stayed in the hospital until she could recover from the delivery and he only paid something like $30.00 for it.
He then chided the USA’s system because his wife’s sister (a US citizen) had to pay $5,000 for her cesarian operation when she delivered her child ( his nephew ). She did not have private health insurance and was not poor enough for medicaid. The end result was a few of her relatives had to chip in to help pay the hospital bill.
All of Canada "chipped in" to pay the Canadian's hospital bill.
What Cruz should have explained is that like all socialized medicine there is only so much money allocated each year. Its rationed healthcare. So at the beginning of the year the govt sets the number of surgeries that can be done in the next 12 months period. If you miss the deadline you are not only out of luck for a surgery under your healthcare insurance you cannot even pay to have it done privately because that would be breaking in line. Hence the stampede to the US.
One of my Canadian acquaintances told me that the trick is to go to the ER. They can’t turn you away.
The other thing to remember that Cruz should have brought up is that Canada only has a population of about 35 million. If they have problems try to extrapolate that to a population of 330 million.