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Originally Posted by Azure
Considering how incompetent the US government is, are you all really surprised that Americans don't want them running a universal health care system?
People love to bury their head in the sand, and us Canadians aren't much better considering we're running into a major spending problem with our health care system, and we prefer to re-elect the governments that silence the doctors that speak out against the government and how the health care system is being run.
When I have to sit for 6 hours in a waiting room to get 6 stitches for a minor cut, I certainly won't get up on any pedestal and brag about how much better our universal public health care system is.
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*gets on pedestal*
In the last year, I had emergency surgery on my intestines ~2 months into a new job. Under the American system, this could have resulted in me being up to my eyeballs in debt until my fifties and potentially receive inferior treatment that could have seriously diminished my quality of life permanently. Under the Canadian system, I got top shelf treatment and never saw a hospital bill. They may fudge the little things and there is clear room for improvement, but they are getting a lot of the big things right.
Random thoughts:
There's also an intangible economic benefit to having a healthy and productive workforce.
I just paid $1.88 (got my health insurance now) for $3000 (street value) of percocet.