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Health care: what would you rather be, a dead Canadian/Brit or a bankrupt, but live American?
Question : Health care: what would you rather be, a dead Canadian/Brit or a bankrupt, but live American?
Those are your options, my fellow Americans. You can choose to be a dead Brit or Canadian because their socialist systems left you waiting years and years for vital treatments (but, hey, they’re free!!!!!), or you can be a living American, but one who has bills to pay (as is standard with all services, why should medicine be different —–you want to buy a Rolls Royce, you pay for it, if you can’t, you get repo-ed or you end up with ruined credit, fair is fair)!!!!! Seriously, I would rather be an American, free and alive, but paying off bills, than a dead Canadian or Brit because the socialized system left me to die waiting and waiting and waiting whereas, yes, I may have financial troubles now, but at least I got the best medical treatment in the world.
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Best answer:
Answer by TheKitten
That is an outright lie perpetrated by the right wing media.
While it is true that people may be put on lengthy waiting lists for elective surgery in Canada and Britain. (Elective means non vital), the health care system will promptly treat any patient whose condition is life threatening. Nobody dies on a waiting list while having a heart attack in a hospital lobby in Canada or Britain.
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#2 written by Stanley 1 year ago
The truth is in these socialized universal single payer health care systems, it works. It is cheaper in the long run and EVERYONE IS COVERED. OK maybe the fact that I have had the opportunity to live in some of these countries and I have seen the success in which these systems provide I am biased. But Americans don’t realize that Socialized medicine is not some Stalinist ideal it is a sens able system that works. every study I have seen shows that Socialized health care for the masses is better that what we Americans currently have. Why are Americans so scared of change? WE AMERICANS PAY MORE FOR LESS SERVICE< WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS!!!!?
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#4 written by Anne W 1 year ago
for the last time, Canada and UK have different systems. they lack home healthcare and an adequate perscription drug program.
also, best medical treatment in the world? i work at Johns Hopkins and yes we have the best care, but the best treatment in the world, i think not. i see many that cant get even bone marrow transplants here because of their insurance company, so they die waiting too. others go out of the country for their treatment. some of the docs here even tell people where to go!
i would rather live in St. Thomas to be honest, they get everything for free from America.
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#5 written by malgorknight 1 year ago
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I lived in Canada for a while and not a single person who I met there disliked their healthcare system. A friend of mine had arthritis and some associated knee problems and had to have a few non-emergency surgeries and yes there were times when her surgeries were postponed. And she said that it was frustrating, but when I asked her if she wished she was in an American style system she was adamant that she did not because she knew in that system that would always be covered.
Also, say it was as bad as you say in Canada. Then what would be the difference between people in Canada dying due to the system being saturated and people in the US dying because they are denied coverage?