thereisnospoon
Gold Member
and yet many canadians come to the US for healthcare
facts, learn them
False. Very few Canadians go to the US for health care. Studies indicate that nearly all of the Canadians who receive medical treatment in the US are people who were in the US either for business or on vacation, and while there, became ill.
The husband of one my dearest friends suffered a heart attack while he was in the US on business. They requested that he be stabilized and returned to Canada by air ambulance because they wanted him to be treated in Canada.
And yes, you will have to pry our health care from our cold dead hands because we will never give it up. Politicians have lost elections here because they messed with our health care.
Last but not least, Tommy Douglas, the man who originated our health care system, was recently named as the greatest Canadian who ever lived.
Let's see your response to this..
My friend is from Canada. His family resides in the GTA.
His half brother injured his knee. He visited his primary care doc. They looked at the knee which was swollen and stiff. He was given scrip for medication and an appointment for an MRI....In EIGHT weeks....
I was having what turned out to be migraines. I went to my primary care doc and my MRI appointment was done in THREE DAYS..And I don't lose half my wages to taxes.
The ONLY reason Canada's system has a prayer is because the population is so small.
1/10th that of the US...
Yours is that of the entitlement mentality. You don't care what you can get as long as someone else is paying for it.
In the end though, you ALL pay with confiscatory taxation.
Like it or not, your medical care is not 'free'...
And please, do not respond with "no one said it was free'...That's not even close to true.
Oh....Canadians are apparently staying away from medicine as a career....in droves.
"And yet Canada desperately relies on foreigners to come in and beef up the scant supply of locally-trained physicians. We have never produced enough doctors to meet the health needs of the Canadian population. In fact, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced this week that Ottawa is pondering fast-tracking international medical graduates into the system to “respond to current and future shortages and across the spectrum of the labour market.” But as much as we appear to like the idea of importing doctors, once the newcomers reach our shores we don’t seem to have so much as a welcome mat ready for them."
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/20/is-canada-discriminating-against-foreign-trained-doctors/
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