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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
Most people in Canada have seperate health insurance as well because what is covered by the government is very limited.. and I know a lot of Canadians who go to the US and other countries to pay for surgeries etc because if they had to sit on the waiting lists in Canada, they would already be dead. As for longer lines than what we have in Canada, NO WAY. I tore my rotator cuff and couldn't even get an ultrasound for a MONTH... I could have driven to Buffalo, paid $500 and had it the same day. Things up there are bad and getting worse as far as health care, and anyone who says differently hasn't experienced the health care system up there. Not to mention all the other crap that we do end up paying for... "free" is really relative.
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The diffrence between you having health insurance and getting free treatment.. Well you can likely get the treatment even if you don't have the insurance.. In the US you just don't get the treatment.
You totally missed what I said about wait times .. read it again.
In Canada everyone is covered. In the US not everyone is covered. In fact it's something like 45.8 million people that are not covered with any health insurance in the US.
So as I said before.. Add those 45.8 million people into the lines in the US much less the millions of people that get turned down for treatment via their insurance companies in the US..
Well you add all those people to the line, and you would very likely have much longer wait times in the US.