My Canadian friends, is this yet another bit of misinformation about your country?

Question

A guy answering a question about Canadian health benefits:

Just a side note, they (meaning Canada) also had one of the first socialized medical programs - worked really well for the first few years, now they are overloaded and people are dying because there is not enough money to pay the socialized healthcare to take care of so many people... literally people die in hallways - like the state or county hospitals in major U.S. cities...

Here's the original source:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvP_DfWmd1tOFjJcmgiGxBLsy6IX?qid=20060907092002AAVuSi3

LOL, larylz I'm gonna kill you.

Answer 1

Personnally I've never had to wait more than 1/2 hr. to 45 min. There were problems just after it started The new toy syndrome. people were flooding the system with every ache or pain. The neurotics had a ball. It didn't take long to change it to a triage system. If you were to emerency, twice that week, you may have to wait unless you were supposed to come back. I had an occasion to take a friend, who we thought was having a heart attack. We went to the desk, the nurse asked him what was wrong and when he told her, she told him not to move, called an orderly with a wheelchair and had him hooked up to an EKG before she even asked his name. Fortunately it was only an angina attack. There are waiting periods for things like hip replacements & some types of elective procedures. Because the med training in Canada is so well respected we loose a lot of doctors to the US. They must be the hacks buddy was talking about.

Answer 2

I like cheese

Answer 3

As a Canadian I will tell you....that I like cheese.

Answer 4

I like cheese too.


(your question makes my brain hurt....)

Answer 5

cheese IS good!