SweetSue92
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As does the free market philosophy. It all looks good on paper. Hospitals don't pay property taxes. We the people pay that for them.My dad had was in the ER for 7 hours and then taken to a hospital 3 hours away.Story told from my wife when she was at the hospital for her physio. Guy in the waiting room of the hospital, been there several hours, blood all over his shirt, soaked, still bleeding on the floor, bone on his arm exposed as he cut himself accidentally with a chainsaw.
This is socialized medicine. Or maybe he just isn't popular with the Powers that Be, let him sit awhile and learn a lesson...
That's in the States. So, let's cut the shit on the scare stories on "socialized" health care. The speed in which you can obtain certain types of surgeries in Canada depends on where you live. Canada is a mixture.
The ER in most hospitals here is usually overcrowded. There is no alternative after 6. Urgent Care places close about 8.
The truth is there are good and bad points in each case. Neither is perfect, that's for sure. But for me I surely don't want the government in charge of my health care. No way.
Canada has a private/public health care. So, if you are living in the boondocks and you need a specific surgery and there is one surgeon that can preform the surgery in a 350 mile radius......you're going to see a wait list.
Yep, I hear you. The most trustworthy people in charge of health care are those that are exploiting for profit.
Sure. Human nature is what it is. You might get, say, half of drs. who are truly in it to help humanity--out of the "goodness of their hearts". Half are not, or get jaded. So if you are on a gov't system and they are all paid the same, how are you going to motivate them to continue to do good work without a profit motive?
The problem with all forms of socialism is that it imagines that humanity is not what it is. It imagines we are something better.
No, the free market philosophy posits that we are motivated by self-interest. Which I find is usually the truth.