Lol, $0. Surgeons in Canada work for free?I get hit by a car tonight, and need emergency surgery. They fix me up and a few weeks later I walk out of the hospital looking forward to enjoying the rest of my life. Total Cost $0.00
Happens to me in the US, and I walk out of the hospital, with a $50,000+ (could be more, have no idea) bill to worry about paying.
So once again ... how does one not thank god they don't live in the US in terms of Health Care ? Can't see how anyone can disagree.
That's pretty sad that the Canadian government makes it illegal for you to pay for private health care in the country.
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Please. Do yo know what $155 a month worth of insurance gets you? You're covered for one aspirin in a hospital.
Trust me, you can't get anything worthwhile for that little a month.
We have first class doctors so you pay for it. The countries that are ahead of us on that list are a joke, for the most part. If you had a choice to be seen by an American doctor or one on that list what would you chose? You pay for first class benefits that is how this country works.
As stated it isn't like if you go to the emergency room they are going to say I am sorry your child is dying but we can't help you w/o insurance.
Get a job and consider your future. Plan ahead or forget about it. If you are having kids and you can't afford anything then why are you having them what were you thinking?
Also to the person that said about college. My GF has 60k in loans taken out to pay for school so she could go to a good science program because she wants to be a doctor. You can take out loans and if you can't you can go to the JUCO by my house that is 1000 for a whole semester of 15 hours of classes. You also can apply for financial aid and what not.
I agree with Primetime that this country gives out to many gimmee's already but I understand why they do it. Could you imagine going through your whole life w/o a major medical issue and you die from natural causes at like 80... and say you have paid for everyone else's coverage in the country and probably paid more over the long run then you would here.
Do you not have a private alternative in Canada? In the UK (and Cyprus) there is both public health care for those who can't afford it/choose not to pay, and private for those who wish to go down that route.
Be very careful what you wish for.
Universal health care sounds good in theory, but in practice it really means that instead of the poor having the same access to health care as the rich, we all have the same health care as the poor.
I'm my grandparents' live-in caregiver and deal with our system near daily. Both of my grandparents are in hospital right now, actually. Grandma, who can't feed herself now, has no nurses to do this for her, they are too understaffed. I or my parents must be at the hospital for every single meal.
She's also on a waiting list for a nursing home and it will likely take another year before she gets a placement. And that's for a PRIVATE room! For those who cannot afford private but can only pay for a ward bed, the wait is currently averaging three years. Imagine trying to plan for your later years under these circumstances!
590 people in my city are on these waiting lists. 190 of them are in a crisis position in hospital. When a bed opens up for those in crisis, they MUST take it. It makes no difference if the nursing home is shit, or too far away, or otherwise not what you would choose for your loved one. You MUST take the spot, or be fined $300 per day, or have your file closed and be sent home.
It's criminal, immoral, and downright inhumane.
I understand what you mean.I'm not really for universal health care, I'm just for making the insurance we have in place now more affordable and there's ways of doing it. For one, the fact that everyone has to pick up the slack for illegal aliens using the health care here is nuts. It creates a chain reaction of higher costs.
oh no ! i wont be able to sleep at night cause that fat bastard moore has made another whiner flick!
if the problems here in America are so bad why the hell dont he move? why has America since day one had flocks of people literally killing themsleves to get into our country? i dont see Americans busting down the Canadian or Mexican borders to enter, do you?
life in America is as good as the person himself makes it. land of the free home of the brave dont mean you can sit on your ass and bravely get everything free. actually you almost can though nowdays if you spawn enough kids
that 27 yr old waitress could have got a grant (even if shes learning disabled or otherwise retarded) or a student loan at 18 and went to college free, got a better job so she could afford 200 bucks a month for health insurance from an online insurance company. theres many options out there but people dont think about insurance until they need it for whatever reason . should the governement also supply people free toilet paper and remind them to wipe their asses?
most waitresses i know with ANY sort of personality make 15-20 bucks an hr but when they get off work at 11 oclock they prefer to spend thier hard earned money at the bar with the rest of their slacker friends instead of putting away 7 bucks a day (thats a tip from one table) to pay monthly health coverage. its a lifestyle choice.
even without insurance people with any sort of reasoning skills can find solutions. about 10 years ago i had no insurance. i was stabbed and had a 5k bill at the emergency room. as far as the government knew i had no income that year, so i simply showed my w2 to some clerk at the hospital a couple months later and some charitable foundation ate the bill
now i pay 36 bucks a week out of my check at my job for insurance. we are a small company with 30 employees yet we are ALWAYS hiring , over half the people elect to not have the medical coverage yet a few of these same people buy a quarter of coke every friday. again its a lifestyle choice.
americans dont worry too much about canadas health care system so why in the hell would you be so distraught over an injustice in this country that the entire world is so fascinated by?
never fear though, when some country attacks you or you have a natural disaster you can still count on America to come help you out and our taxpayers will foot the bill and the entire world will be pissed off
even without insurance people with any sort of reasoning skills can find solutions. about 10 years ago i had no insurance. i was stabbed and had a 5k bill at the emergency room. as far as the government knew i had no income that year, so i simply showed my w2 to some clerk at the hospital a couple months later and some charitable foundation ate the bill