Whether the care I received in the United States was medically better, I cannot judge. But I did buy something you can't buy here: Civility.
In Wednesday's Star, Joe Fiorito recounted his experience renewing his Ontario health card: a senseless bureaucracy making him shuffle about the city; rude bureaucrats; stupid rules.
His story rings uncomfortably true. Health-care workers I've met in Toronto don't care.
Bump!