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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
I really want there to be a true comparative study on taxes between the US and Canada. I live in California, a very heavily taxed state compared to other regions in the US, and I don't pay nearly what I did or would in Canada.
Personally, I don't care how freaking great the care is in the end, if I'm dying, in pain or my long term health is in jeopardy because I have to wait so everyone in line can be seen, I'm not interested in that system.
I know several doctors that have moved their practice to the US from Canada. Obviously the reasons do include money, but a very important benefit to practicing medicine in the US over Canada is that doctors have access to equipment and facilities in order to give their patients the best possible care.
As a patient, I thoroughly enjoy the access I have to specialists, technology, doctors, etc... But, I also worked hard to put myself in a position where I can benefit from that. I pay taxes, have a job that pays insurance premiums and pay premiums for my fiancee. So, I think I deserve what I've earned.
Too many (Canadians) are influenced by popular media, horror stories from US ER rooms, and Michael Moore. I'm sure you could cherry-pick horror stories from the Canadian medical system that are equally troubling (which opponents of Obama's plan are doing currently).
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You are contradicting yourself here. Other than money, why would a doctor go to a country with more facilities and resources (obviously the US) to help people when he is only going to help a small elite percentage of the population? I don't think his oath was taken with that in mind. If you don't care about your fellow citizens fine, but that's what our system in Canada is based on.
Based on personal bankruptices and the unfathomable amount of debt terminally ill patients are expected to shoulder in the US are reason alone to have a single payer system.
And my horror stories are based on friends and family in the US. A girl getting hit by a car and waiting 6 hours for treatment at Columbia University hospital site, 8 hours waits in Manhattan to see a doctor for someone that is insured and friends that have been living in Canada for years that are afraid to move back to the US because they won't have health care coverage despite having been born and lived in the US for their first 30 years.