It is a sick care plan , not a health care plan. People want to keep living their unhealthy lifestyle but want someone else to pay the consequences.
Of course. The 40-50 million Americans (a greater number than the entire population of Canada) without medical insurance just want to live unhealthy lifestyles. It has nothing to do with the fact they cannot afford it and if they ever get sick, they are basically screwed.
The US has great healthcare, but it has major flaws. Money should not be an issue when dealing with peoples' health. These flaws would be fixed with so-called "socialized medicine". The system we have in Canada is a great one and a majority of Canadians are in heavy favour of it. Including myself.
I note a lot of Republican politicians argue that the wait times up here are so bad *fill in unrealistic anecdote here to prove what BS they are spouting*. And I've noted prominent politicians and speakers say some profound BS.
For example, this one vile woman - Sally C. Pipes - president of the Pacific Research Institute and former Assistant-Director of the Free-Market at Canada's Fraser Institute -
claimed in this Youtube video that Alberta has no neo-natal units. That some friend of hers was pregnant in Alberta and had to be flown to some stick town in Montana with a neo-natal unit because there was apparently no neo-natal unit from BC to Saskatchewan.
This is despite the fact Alberta alone has 4 neo-natal units (2 in Calgary, 2 in Edmonton). 2 in the city her friend was in (Calgary), which has a population of over a million people. What utter BS. I guess every Canadian born in the Rockies or Prairies has to be flown to the US, then, and so are technically all Americans...
She also says the reason why Canada doesn't allow private systems to run parallel to the public system is because "people won't be allowed to make comparisons" :sarcastic. This is despite the fact our Conservative party has presented this notion called the "Dual System" where exactly that will happen. And the Canadian people by and large vehemently oppose it. Apparently Canadians hate good healthcare?
I don't know what this liar's point is, but that seems to be it. Canada does not allow that system to exist because of lack of regulation. It would have to impose severe restrictions on the private system so that their standards are either equal to or greater than that of the public system. It's to ensure these companies don't screw you out of your money and offer you shoddy treatment. Canada has strict standards of medical practices.
She then goes onto her friend - the orthopedic surgeon being sued by the Government of British Columbia for charging people for MRIs and the like - and I think she's trying to insinuate how the government wants people to be on waiting lists. She's an idiot.
The Gov of BC is suing him because he's violating BC and federal law by operating a practice that is not regulated by Health Canada. The Government has no way of knowing if he's a quack or if he knows what he's doing. They don't know what his standards are. And he's breaking the law. I don't know what her problem is, but she clearly loves to distort things. Obviously it's a huge conspiracy to put Canadians on perpetual waiting lists.
And the thing about the colonoscopy so obviously ******** that even I don't need to spell it out. It's all there for you to see. So my warning to Americans: Be wary of what your politicians say concerning the healthcare system of Canada. Chances are, it's ********.
