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Originally Posted by pylon
This can certainly go both ways. My dad had an bulge/aneurysm on his aorta. He was told, "Lifting a 10 pound box, could kill you before you hit the ground." Oh, BTW there's a 10% chance you die on the table at your age. He was then placed on a waitlist and told to wait for a surgeon. 6 months had passed and he was couch ridden, depressed, gaining weight from lack of activity and losing hope. He's 82, and I believe they were hoping he'd die before his appointment.
Meanwhile his 75 year old brother in Seattle went for a routine checkup and was on the table for a triple bypass within 72 hours of them finding an issue.
Money was no issue to my parents, and when my mother started making some calls, and looked into getting the Surgery in the States they miraculously managed to hustle him in within days when they caught wind of this. If they lived in US he would have already had his Aorta replaced and been swinging his golf clubs again. The wait would have been days not months.
I'm sorry, I am as capitalist as they come. I have worked very, VERY hard to have what I have, and made enormous personal sacrifices to get to where I am. As have thousands of well off people in this province. I believe if I have the means, and I am willing to pay out of pocket to save my own life or the life of a family member, I shouldn't have to get on an Airplane and fly thousands of kilometers. That should be available to me in my own backyard, and the fact it isn't and I could die as a result tells me the system IS broken.
There's gotta be something in the middle.
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Right, me first & the gimme gimmies capitalism is always a success so long as democratic socialism (natural resources of the commons, infrastructure, education etc) is there to underwrite it and then completely save it when it fails (usually spectacularly).
These kind of health services would be more widely available in your own backyard if the incompetent troglodyte Christian Fascists in power didn’t openly declare war on Physicians for the past 4 years. Driving them to other parts of the country & planet.
People like vascular surgeons can take their skills, abilities and services to places where they are not under attack by lunatics void of fact, logic, & reason.
No one says you didn’t work hard. However, similar people worked just as hard and didn’t receive whatever fortuitous breaks you did (even if you worked for them) to accumulate wealth.
The luck of simply existing where you do is one example.
But why, as you stated “should the 1000’s people” with ample resources have the medical system subverted to meet their convenience, away from the meeting needs of millions of people without ample resources?