Or is that just U.S. propaganda?
Canadian replies only, please.
2007-09-17 08:50:42 · 9 answers · asked by Not so looney afterall 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I like it.
I've had friends and family members spend time in hospital due to operations, and they didn't have to pay a thing. their bills always came to a few thousand dollars.
I think that it is mostly american propaganda. Or you have that one Canadian that had the money to go to the US for health care, so now all americans assume that the care here is awful, when that couldn't be further from the truth.
Yeah, if you don't have a serious injury you will be asked to wait a few hours or so to see a doctor. Id rather wait 3 hours to get a cast on, then see a doctor immediately and have to pay thousands.
Maybe that's just me. I do, after all, have a little thing called common sense.
Brian-i dont know what you're talking about. my grandfather has colon cancer, and my best friend's grandmother has leukemia, and they both got prompt, efficient treatment. Don't base a whole nation's health care system on one isolated incident. It is impossible for him to just be flat out refused treatment.
2007-09-17 08:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Cristina 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a Canadian, but most of my family is. And they absolutely love their Health Care system. They actually down the U.S. for not having Socialized health care.
And I agree with them. That's why I'm applying for dual citizenship.
2007-09-17 09:15:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremiah 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That is pure propaganda. I am a frequent visitor to Canada and I have yet to hear any Canadian speak ill of their health care system.
2007-09-17 08:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Don't need a Canadian to tell me, though many of my relatives had and here is a few links to prove it. There are many, many links to a health care crisis in Canada. All you have to do is goggle it.
From: All Things Considered (NPR) Date: October 19, 1993 More results for: Canadian health care cost
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ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Canada's universal health care program is something residents of the U.S. have heard a lot about in the debate over health care reform here. Canada's Medicare is held up as a successful model of a single payer system. Now, strapped by recession and a crushing national debt, Canadians can no longer afford a system with costs some say are growing out of control. Jennifer Ludden reports from Montreal.
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http://home.gwi.net/global/canadian_health_care_fails_5_ways.htm
2.) http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/hl856.cfm
3.) http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7481420.html
4.)http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-28001725.html
2007-09-17 09:11:46 · answer #4 · answered by libsticker 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
no, we do not. I dont know one single person who would dream of exchanging our system for the american one.
Yes, there are problems - mostly rooted in the huge country/sparse population situation, which is at the core of many of canada's difficulties - but it works very well despite that.
2007-09-17 09:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
The Canadian healthcare system has never found a cure for that boil on Canada's ****.
2007-09-17 09:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I am American and my grandparents live in Canada. If the US wasn't so close my grandfather would have died years ago as the Canadian government wouldn't allow him to be treated for cancer, they wanted him to go to hospice. Fortunately he came to the US, had surgery and went home never to have any recurring problem. Some system they have in Canada, let the old people die so they can focus on the young!
2007-09-17 09:01:22 · answer #7 · answered by Brian 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Not a Canadian, but I grew up in Florida. And the whole time I lived there, we had Canadians there every winter. Guess what they were there for? Health care.
2007-09-17 08:55:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 7⤋
no, us propaganda, would not trade for the us system no way no how!
2007-09-17 09:09:42 · answer #9 · answered by wtfsept11 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋