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Originally Posted by Azure
And? So those of us who have family stuck on waiting lists should just shut the hell up?
Why does it always have to turn into a 'well the US has waiting lists too.'
There are waiting lists here in Canada. Long waiting lists.
And trust me, if you needed knee surgery, you would be on a waiting list too. And if you lived in Manitoba and needed a MRI, you would be on a waiting list too.
There are problems here in Canada with our health care system that need to be fixed too. Standing on our pedestal and telling the whole world how awesome our health care is because our family received good health care doesn't change the fact that there are thousands of other people who can't receive that kind of care.
In fact, doing that is very similar to the people in the US who DO receive good quality health care, and they're standing on their pedestal too telling the whole world how awesome THEIR health care is. Despite the fact that there are people going bankrupt overnight paying for surgery that their insurance company refused to cover.
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Someone is a little oversensitive. That's exactly the point I was trying to make. People in this thread earlier were talking about long waits in Canada and that is the chief problem of our system at the moment. Someone was asking how the system worked and if there was no alternative to waiting lists. There is none in Canada, unless your wait happens to be a 2 week wait which could be the case.
Conversely, in the US you can pay to jump the line but otherwise face similar wait times.
We were doing a good job of discussing this topic rationally until you came along and overreacted. You and I have argued over this before and vehemently support opposite systems but please try not to drag everything down into a pissing contest.