A couple of personal anecdotes are sweet but hardly proof that a gov't single-payer system is better as Cowboy Ted claimed, that it is best for the US as many claim, nor does it explain why so many Canadians come to the US for their medical care.
If Canada is so much better, why do they come here and why is Canadian dissatisfaction with their system rising?
Almost 90% of Canadians want health-care complaint line: survey
"A wave of discontent with the nation’s health-care system is sweeping across Canada, with the vast majority of Canadians revealing they feel like outsiders who are powerless to influence their own health care...
An Ipsos Reid survey, commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association and due to be released Monday at the organization’s annual general council meeting in St. John’s, N.L., shows that public satisfaction with the health system continues to slide."
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You continue to wiggle and squirm but have yet to explain why so many Canadians come to the US for medical treatment or the rising dissatisfaction with their gov't run healthcare system.
Being a driver in Cleveland, I run across Canadian truck drivers all the time at my stops. I always question them about their healthcare system.
Younger people love the system. You don't pay a dime, they take pretty good care of you, and you don't have to worry about insurance or anything like that. Of course, younger people have less serious conditions than the elder.
Older drivers, the exact opposite. For serious conditions, you don't want to be caught up in Canada. They always suggest that I write to my representatives and tell them to keep what we got. I've heard stories about botched surgeries, terrible care and long waits to get help. I do understand they are good and prescribing pain killers in Canada though. You're going to need them while your name is in line for the next hospital bed.
My husband had a friend from England with diabetes, who came here to live with his wife. He was always complaining about having to pay toward his diabetes supplies, since his health insurance had co-pays and deductibles. He waxed poetic about the wonders of England's health care system, where everything he needed was just handed to him without him ever having to even see a list of the costs if he didn't want to. Finally, Joe got tired of hearing it and sat him down for a little math lesson. He went through the difference in the taxes John paid in England versus what he paid here, how much the English government spends on their healthcare system, how much those supplies were costing (because believe it or not, leftists, John was still paying for his supplies in England), and how long it took him to get seen by a doctor in England versus how long it took here. Basically, ALL the costs involved, and the difference between "free" and "indirect payment".
It's not that John was too stupid to understand. It's that, like the left here in America, he had been trained to be lazy and superficial and never look past the first layer where the bill went somewhere else, to where the cost still came out of his pocket.