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Originally Posted by crockett
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.
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Actually, it's not covered if you don't have insurance, many of the treatments, the government can deny the request and you get the bill in the mail.. and you'd be surprised just what they won't cover.. It's pretty sick, actually. It's very much like an HMO type situation, except it's run by the government, not some company, so there's even less chance of fighting with them. Paying ridiculous amounts of taxes, add to that $250+ a month for extra medical insurance who are just as assholish about covering things as the government health care system is is definitely a nightmare... And it's province to province, not all provinces are "free". Albertans still pay for their health care coverage, every three months... it's definitely not cheap, either.. and they are still taxed to death. It's a very uneven system and with more and more immigrants coming into the country every day, it's a larger and larger burden altogether.
As far as wait times, if you look at the facts, Canada does have longer wait times... It's stated on CNN and Moore's site as factual statistics... I think the most terrible time of my life was watching my husband be incredibly ill for over a year with what they figured was cancer, but it still took almost 9 months JUST for him to see a specialist in order to get the road STARTED for diagnosis... It's now almost two years later and they are STILL not done the process, and it will be another 5 months before he can see the specialist again, and with no options to go to another specialist or do anything but sit on his heels and wait...