Is British and Canadian health care as bad as the American politicians make it out to be?

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Answer 1

I can only speak from my own personal experience and it indicates a resounding YES...........

Answer 2

No it isnt, in fact for most people the systems are a lot better. There are some stories about long waits, but these tend to be for specialized treatments such as transplants. In any case, which would you prefer - a slower service or no service at all?
Of course no system is infallible, but at least you have the option of purchasing private insurance in addition to the the National service if you want.
A lot also depends on where you live, there is no doubt that certain areas of the country run their health services better than others.
But for outpatient or long term treatment it seems to work pretty well.

Answer 3

It depends. Ignore the comment about Canada's health care being 'free'. What a complete lie. Most of our ridiculously high income taxes pay our 'free' health care.

Apart from being free, it is also by nature corrupt. I have several friends in varying positions throughout the Canadian health care system. Some doctors, some nurses, some lab techs. All repeat the same experiences - corruption and waste.

There are also far fewer resources available in Canada. In fact, Philadelphia has more MRI's than all of Canada. I have known older people who are on a waitlist for 8 months to get a hip replacement. They flew to the US and got it done that day because they could afford it.

My wife's boss gave birth this morning at 7:18 am, after being in labor in the waiting room for a bed for 6 hours. In Calgary, 2 years ago, a woman miscarried in the waiting room.

Public health care at it's finest.
No system is perfect, but Canada's is unsustainable. The only reason Canada can afford to put vast sums of money into it's health care is because the Americans don't, they spend their money on defense, freeing up Canada's defense budget for health care and other vote-grabbing issues.

It makes me sick.

Answer 4

The health care discussion is BS. Nobody wants to discuss the real issues.

Healthcare has gotten expensive because of technology. Over 50% of your lifetime healthcare dollars are spent in the last 6 months of your life. Whether you have a government sponsored system like the UK, France or Canada, or a market sponsored one like in the US, health care is rationed.

In 1950 there was no chemo therapy, cardio bypass, MRI, CT's, etc.

The average person could afford it.

The question that should be debated and will never be is when is enough --- enough. No politician will win on the platform Grandma doesn't get chemo and Grandpa doesn't get the bypass.

Untill then the lines will get longer in France, the UK and Canada and Health Insurance will get more expensive in the US.

Answer 5

No. It really isn't - I know a lot of brits and canadians and never hear complaints. People who are against universal health care tend to believe stories about waiting 3 months to see doctors, and having our taxes skyrocket - which simply aren't true.

Notice how they also make the comparison to the Cuban health care system rather than the Canadian health care system. This is so they can call anyone who supports socialized medicine a communist.

Answer 6

human beings say undesirable issues with regard to the Canadian equipment because of the fact they suspect all the media hype and crap approximately wait situations and detrimental care.detrimental sods do no longer understand from now on useful. relatively we've a great wellness care equipment up right here.

Answer 7

i am a Canadian and i would like to say our health care is good. but our wait times are very long. This is because it is free. So the government has to spend money to make it better. That has been the fight for years in every election. so our only problem is wait time not quality.

Answer 8

According to my Canadian wife: No

According to my German Aunt: Germany's is even better than England's, Which is much better than America's.

American health care is wonderful if and only if your employer pays 100% of your premium and you have no co-pays or deductibles, or you make over $100,000 a year ( at which point, your employer probably does)

Answer 9

I worked in health care for 17 years and botgh systems are about 20 years behind times, Britian especially so. The reason is the government does not have the funds to keep up with quality care AND provide everybody decent care. With their tax structure at 70% of wages and it still isn't enough, people have no clue as to what that would cost tax payers. All the lazy bastards of this country see is another free hand out.

Whats next, food? Sorry its covered.
Whats next, housing? Sorry its covered.
Whats next, education? Sorry, its covered
whats next, cash? Sorry, its covered
Whats next, free day care? Sorry its covered.
Whats next, eliminate tax rsponsibilites? Sorry thats covered.

CHRIST, WHAT'S LEFT BESIDES INHALING AND EXHALING?

When did country turn inot a welfare state where people not only don't contribute to society, but drain from it. Oh, I see, when FDR the socialist took over and we have been on a not so gradual decline ever since. Thanks dems.

Answer 10

No, especially Canadian, but it's irrelevant since nobody is talking about a single-payer system. That is a smokescreen intended to end any debate about any type of reform whatsoever.

Answer 11

No... go to www.who.org and see the stats for yourself then compare them to the stats of the United States. At one time America was a leader in medicine and science but a lot of nations have caught up with us. A lot of us are too stubborn and naive to see this.