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Originally posted by Rose
I can post hunderds of stories like that about canadian health care. People dying while waiting 4 months for cancer surgery or chemotherapy. Waiting 6 months for MRI. And that BS about free health care hehe, do you really think it's free? It's just the one big myth.
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Yeah, I lived in England for a while, in fact I was born there. We had the same sort of system as Canada. My mother is moving back there next year to take advantage of it because she needs full time, long term care for Multiple Sclerosis. Its not too bad. You do have to wait for more minor stuff.. a few months for an MRI (for a non-life threatening condition) is not so unreasonable etc. but if you have something life threatening, or you need expensive, long term care, they'll take care of you.
The US is great if you have very good insurance or you can afford to pay outright. If not, you can get fucked really badly. Its a very have / have-not system, and in todays economy the have nots vastly outnumber the haves.
One irony is that is that because we don't have a universal "fake free" healthcare system US hospitals end up bleeding shitloads of money because they have to provide tons of REALLY free care. You can't be turned away from an Emergency Dept. here by law, and you don't have to show I.D. You can imagine that a good percentage of people who get care in Emergency rooms do so under aliases and will never pay for services rendered. Shit, even if you do use your real name you don't have to pay the bill as long as you aren't worried about your credit.