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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Sorry, basically free.
I've been in an ER before, we all have been in an ER before. We've all had long wait times and one point in our life and it sucks in that moment cause we're whiners and we want to be helped ASAP because we're special and important just like my mom always told me.
Then you sit back and think... christ... I'm not getting a bill for any of that and at worst I wasted an afternoon and didn't get to masturbate as much as I would have liked.
Too bad so bad, it's a fair trade off.
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It is not even basically free at all. Canadians pay a lot of taxes and will pay even more in the future for that care. I have no problem with that, but lets not try to make it something it isn't.
Another solution would be to create a private side ER. You can go sit in the crappy publicly funded ER for hours on end, or you can pay private insurance and get faster treatment at a private ER. Would probably go a long way to alleviate the problems. All major cases would still go through the public system.
I would gladly pay money to be able to receive care faster.