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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
You have a weirdly rosy view of the US health care system. Wait times in US urban centers are far longer than they are in Canada, and doctors are even more overworked.
Not to mention that it costs 700 dollars to get a doctor to put a boot on an ankle fracture. A cortisone injection will cost thousands if you're footing the bill. Most people pay only a portion of that, but they pay for it the rest of the year with their insurance premiums.
The U.S. health care system is more expensive than ours and has worse outcomes. I'm not sure this bill will fix that problem (I suspect it won't) but that's pretty much undeniable.
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I am just relaying what my Flaming Liberal Oilers fan uncle told us of his experience in Honolulu from January of this year.
Cortizone and morphone shot for $135 at the clinic in Sheraton hotel on Waikiki beach. He wouldnt shut up about it and my Aunt the nurse kept trying to defend the doctors in Edmonton.
It was quite funny.