[fakecanuck]

Canadians may have to wait longer in line for a CAT scan, but at least they won't have to sell their first born to do it. It's a system which is accessible to every citizen, with or without money in the bank.

[Servant of the 9]

Canadians may have to wait longer in line for a CAT scan, but at least they won't have to sell their first born to do it. It's a system which is accessible to every citizen, with or without money in the bank.

Just how much good does free cancer care do you when it takes so long to be diagnosed and scheduled for surgery, that it becomes terminal?

What Canada provides is equally bad treatment for all but the super rich
What the US provides is the best health care in the world at an affordable though steep price for all but the marginal.

In both countries, you get exactly what you pay for.

So9

[kanawa]

Get your hand out of my pocket and let me buy my own insurance.

Hard-cases can go to charity.

[muleskinner]

The only part government should play is to stop lawyers from filing frivolous malpractice suites. Insurance companies pay them off, then raise rates on everyone.

Leaving a sponge in during an operation is one thing, but saying it's the doctors fault your kid has birth defects is another.

[lepton]

It's a system which is accessible to every citizen, with or without money in the bank.

Such as it is...and except when it's closed.

[Squawk 8888]

It's a system which is accessible to every citizen, with or without money in the bank.

But more accessible to the well-connected. When the federal health minister needed prostate surgery he waited two days, for the rest of us plebes the wait is three to four months.

[Nanodik]

Your name says it all....

I think it is hard for Americans to imagine how the health care system is slowly falling apart up there. There will be a day of reckoning for Canada and I feel for my relatives who are still up there...