mcbride
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Holy cow, domroomiesneeded, it's a freaking tsunami of factual errors. It's hard to know where to start. Can you cite any numbers at all on "all the bankruptcies in Canada because of the lack of services in healthcare?" Tell me, is that more than in the US, where half of personal bankruptcies are due to unpaid, high medical bills? Is it close? "Greedy union thugs striking at the drop of a dime" in health care? Who are they? There are no waits for urgent or primary care in Canada: If you need immediate care, you get it. Period. There are waits for most specialists’ care, and longer waits for elective surgery. Is that a problem? Sometimes, but Canada's health care outcomes remain better than the US, and Canadians get the care, without having to worry about money. I know that Americans spend far more money, yet despite this have poorer health outcomes than Canadians. Canada also has a lower mortality rate. American infant mortality rates are 40 per cent higher I know that Natasha Richardson refused an exam, and I know that in Montreal (where Richardson was taken), to quote Dr. Brett Taylor, a study found that "100 per cent of victims arrived by road ambulance; whereas in King County in Washington State, 15 per cent arrived by helicopter. But, Montreal's ambulance crews were on the scene sooner, spent less time there, and had shorter transport times. That's right, a U.S. system with dedicated air transport had transport times averaging 23 minutes, compared to Montreal which averaged 10." I know that you're parroting Fox talking points when you claim that Canadians flock to the US for health care. It's an outright lie, actually. The last study of cross border patients, using US hospital records, found that " the hordes of people fleeing Canadian health care for treatment in the U.S. was actually an infinitesimal 0.046% over five years." Where is the compassion? Not at your house, pal. quote:
original: domroomiesneeded Canada's govt run healthcare system shows compassion? WTH? Ten percent of the country forced - through taxation - to pay for a service they do not receive due to the greedy govt rationing services/equipment and the greedy union thugs striking at the drop of a dime is compassionate? What about all the bankruptcies in Canada because of the lack of services in healthcare? The productivity lost because of people on year(s) long waiting lists? The people who suffer in excrutiating pain because of the gov rationing and long waiting lists? What about the people who die while on these waiting lists? Canada's healthcare is many things, but compassionate is not one of them. You should know as that American actress died in Quebec while skiing because there was not one Medivac in the entire province. Even an American Obamunist couldn't believe that as he worked in that industry and said that the city of Cleveland had 3 Medivacs. Do you think it is sheer coincidence that Canadians flock to the US for healthcare, while you never - or rarely - hear of Americans coming to Canada for healthcare?
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