First, as the above poster said, that isn’t the Canadian health care system – it’s the Quebec health care system. Quebec is…different. They just recently recovered from catholic-run goverment for example, so sundays are still not their thing.
I live on the west coast of Canada, with relatives in Alberta, and what the video shows is unrecognizable.
We’re getting a little tired of you guys trashing our system as part of your debate. This is the sort of rude shite that makes us dislike american culture. In a recent poll support for *expanding* our medicare system, vs expanding private options, was 86%. This video is just a testament to the ability to lie via selective editing and choice of interviews.
I choose my own doctor. I did not have a problem finding one. Or I can drop into a clinic within blocks of my house, any day of the week, and they’ll see me within 15 minutes or give me a slot within 2 hours to return for.
Of all my relatives and friends, from cancer to diabetes to heart problems, they’ve been seen within hours for critical care, operated on within days or a week if required. The service is spectacular in those situations. In others, yes you might wait for elective surgery – but that also happens in the states for most middle class people. Or for 1/4 of you that are uninsured, the wait is forever.
In the USA, how many people die due to lack of insurance, or because some insurance company accountant ruled against treatment? Dead panels, indeed. There is no merit test applied here for care, monetary or otherwise, with the possible exception of transplant waiting lists (where the measure is potential years of life added).
The service-per-dollar level (efficiency) is *higher* than your system’s average. The reason is simple: you can replace the 30% administration costs (accountants desperately figuring out how to deny care to policyholders), with policy instead. It isn’t socialized medicine – it’s single payer. There are still mechanisms to keep efficiency up.
This guy seems to want to be the right’s Moore, in all the wrong ways. Accepting lying to make your point is kind of desperate, are you that close to losing the debate?
But hey, I’m only an actual Canadian who’s lived in a half-dozen different cities, what do I know? You’ll believe whatever you need to.
The views and opinions expressed by individual authors are not necessarily those of other authors, advertisers, developers or editors at United Liberty.
United Liberty
First, as the above poster said, that isn’t the Canadian health care system – it’s the Quebec health care system. Quebec is…different. They just recently recovered from catholic-run goverment for example, so sundays are still not their thing.
I live on the west coast of Canada, with relatives in Alberta, and what the video shows is unrecognizable.
We’re getting a little tired of you guys trashing our system as part of your debate. This is the sort of rude shite that makes us dislike american culture. In a recent poll support for *expanding* our medicare system, vs expanding private options, was 86%. This video is just a testament to the ability to lie via selective editing and choice of interviews.
I choose my own doctor. I did not have a problem finding one. Or I can drop into a clinic within blocks of my house, any day of the week, and they’ll see me within 15 minutes or give me a slot within 2 hours to return for.
Of all my relatives and friends, from cancer to diabetes to heart problems, they’ve been seen within hours for critical care, operated on within days or a week if required. The service is spectacular in those situations. In others, yes you might wait for elective surgery – but that also happens in the states for most middle class people. Or for 1/4 of you that are uninsured, the wait is forever.
In the USA, how many people die due to lack of insurance, or because some insurance company accountant ruled against treatment? Dead panels, indeed. There is no merit test applied here for care, monetary or otherwise, with the possible exception of transplant waiting lists (where the measure is potential years of life added).
The service-per-dollar level (efficiency) is *higher* than your system’s average. The reason is simple: you can replace the 30% administration costs (accountants desperately figuring out how to deny care to policyholders), with policy instead. It isn’t socialized medicine – it’s single payer. There are still mechanisms to keep efficiency up.
This guy seems to want to be the right’s Moore, in all the wrong ways. Accepting lying to make your point is kind of desperate, are you that close to losing the debate?
But hey, I’m only an actual Canadian who’s lived in a half-dozen different cities, what do I know? You’ll believe whatever you need to.
Post new comment