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Originally Posted by Azure
Is the article wrong though? We have a huge problem with wait times, and many people turn to private diagnostic clinics to get better care.
Also, you have to pretty naive to not believe that we get away with spending so little on our military despite having the 2nd biggest land mass in the world because the US spends $600 billion a year on their military.
We REALLY benefit in many ways from having them as our neighbour.
At the end of the day though, we simply have better policies. Better welfare programs, better financial system, actual austerity policies, better energy policies, better political system.....better everything.
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For the average patient, the wait and care is better up North. It ain't great, but I've BEEN to a public hospital in LA, and yes, that was worse. Sure they have some awesome private options that we don't have, but for the 99% to steal a phrase, it is better up here.
And I always get a little perturbed with the 'Well the US protects Canada argument'. First of all, the US isn't protecting our interests, they are protecting their own. They aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, they are involved in our policy (probably a little too much) because they feel it keeps them safer. Secondly, who the heck is going to attack Canada? The threats the US faces aren't the same threats that we face. If they are protecting us from anything it's from conflicts they started. Heck we had a terrorist attempt on our own soil and the RCMP and Canadian organizations did nicely. Did they share info with the States? Maybe, perhaps even probably. But only because the US wants access to our information and our borders because they feel they need it to keep their own country secure.