Hmmm…now there’s a perplexing observation.
Oh, wait…no, it’s not!
This board skews young. And it skews liberal. And it skews, how shall we say…financially challenged, in the main.
And so we have people like emacknight who most likely is very young, has had no need of hip replacement or heart bypass surgery, and who has very little to no money, and who, because of his liberal mindset, thinks government ought to be running things in the first place. And so he comes down here and has to actually pay someone when he gets a cold or needs a shot or needs his broken arm set, and he thinks it sucks here because in Canada he could just go bopping into the doctor’s office and get whatever he needs without having to pay for it other than through his taxes.
But he doesn’t experience the immediate care that 85% of the middle-aged and older people get in this country by virtue of the private insurance. And he doesn’t experience the shots or broken arms that get set just like they do in Canada, right away and with little cost, to the 85% of Americans with good coverage.
And he either isn’t dealing with a chronically underfunded and stretched to the max health care systerm burdened by the whims and vagaries of its own government.
I would imagine that if the situation were reversed and someone here with good coverage and immediate access to quality, properly funded health care were to find themselves in Canada and in dire need of hip or knee replacement or perhaps a pacemaker or non-life-threatening surgery and being forced to live with their condition for months on end before getting the care they need, they would state quite clearly and forcefully that Canada’s system sucks and ours is much better.
So the fact that people on this board who are predominantly young, liberal and broke happen to like a government system that’s “free”, even if they have to wait months on end to get it, and who think it’s just great that their government is now finished with having suddenly decided to tighten its belt and the bad things about its health care system are finally going to “get better”, really means next to nothing in terms of which system is better.
And now, given that I’ve done the right thing and answered EP’s nagging post plus a couple of others in full detail, and given that you people can and will split hairs and equivocate all night and I have other things to do, I must bow out for the night.
Goodnight, Hector! Goodnight, Zoe! Goodnight, emacknight…and hey, watch that spelling and word useage, mmkay? And goodnight, all.
Cheers. 