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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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This may sound insensitive, but the reason for a 6 hour wait is called triage. Showing up at a walk in clinic, urgent care center or your family doctor's office (assuming you have one, which IS a MAJOR issue) would lead to a much shorter wait, less cost to the system and just as good (if not better) outcome. Now going totally off topic, the fix for our system lies in better access to primary care so people with problems like this don't have to seek out emergency services.