sourdick: I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.

sourdick (

sourdick) wrote,
@ 2009-06-27 11:00:00

I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert.
Heya

Jeddite, I'm sure hoping you're still reading the Colorado press (which is part of America!).

Here is an article from the Denver Post called Debunking Canadian health care myths.

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	suitablyemoname 2009-06-27 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	Someone remind me why I still read newspaper comments. BRB, punching kittens. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-27 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	youtube and imdb comments still rank as #1-IQ-destroyer on the net (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chucknoblet 2009-06-27 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	lollersk8s (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-27 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	what are you laughing at (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	chucknoblet 2009-06-27 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	just your Jeddite trolling ^_^ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	doombeast 2009-06-27 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, that's fantastic for you, your new spleen, and Rhonda. I'll stick with my health insurance. Thanks though! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-27 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	I have health insurance too, it pays for my pills, and room upgrades and such. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	doombeast 2009-06-27 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	Boy, I cant wait to suffer a medical emergency, just so I can have all my illusions dispelled about Canadian healthcare. Thanks Rhonda Hackett! Like most people, a single article on the internet changed my entire world view. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

sourdick
2009-06-27 05:37 pm UTC (link)

Its just offering a different opinion than you may be used to from someone who has experienced both systems first hand. I dont think you'll change your mind, but it certainly isnt the socialist-nightmare you seem sometimes to have set up in your head... people arent getting gangrene from sprained ankles while waiting to see a doctor, people are dying on the floor in ERs.

The system works for all intents and purposes, and theres nothing terrifying about it in any way, shape, or form.

	doombeast 2009-06-27 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	I'd also like to point something out to you and Rhonda: USA - population 300,000,000 Canada - population 4 x 12 x 7 (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-27 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Canada is around 34M.. and far more spread out. What's your point? Its easier to have universal health care for less people (and less gross taxes?) Harder? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	doombeast 2009-06-27 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Gee, hmmm, I wonder if it's easier or harder to effectively and efficiently govern/manage a health care system for 34,000,000 people or 300,000,000 people? Math is hard and somebody once told me that larger bureaucracies are more difficult to control. But maybe they were lying or on FAUX NOOSE. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	jujubeantea 2009-06-27 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	you're making me want to move to canada (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-27 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	gorgeous.. just.. gorgeous.. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	yea yea jujubeantea 2009-06-29 04:14 am UTC (link)
	let's see the pre-Photoshop version (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sirbelgarion 2009-06-28 12:08 am UTC (link)
	As somebody who grew up in the US but with Universal Health care and then lost it when I turned 25 (I was a military brat from the moment I was born). I much prefer the doctors deciding how I should be treated rather than the bottom line. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sourdick 2009-06-28 12:09 am UTC (link)
	so which side are you on (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	sirbelgarion 2009-06-28 12:15 am UTC (link)
	For all Jed talk about a choice, its really all talk. For most Americans there is no choice on healthcare we either take what our company gives us or we pay out the ass for some other choice. Doesn't really seem like a choice to me. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	doombeast 2009-06-28 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	AN EVEN MORE RECENT ARTICLE (Reply to this) (Thread)

	piesandcakes 2009-06-28 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	You know the great thing is, they probably won't have to pay a penny for the treatment that their child is receiving. The quote mentions a province-wide search for a neonatal bed, to be honest Buffalo NY, is probably a lot closer to Hamilton ON, than a lot of other places in Ontario. It may be a different country, but it made sense to send the child there too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chucknoblet 2009-06-29 03:06 pm UTC (link)
	I am going to write an article about how I had to sit in an American ER waiting room for 6 hours with my appendix about to burst and then link you to that!!!!!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	luckyme_in 2009-06-30 01:20 pm UTC (link)
	Gay marriage, free health care...why have I not moved to Canada. Oh wait...that's where the cold comes from. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lip_guy 2009-07-20 07:06 am UTC (link)
	That's why we live in Australia - free health care, nearly gay marriage (all the legal rights anyway) and it's WARM (well some of it is..) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	That was worth reading sandor_baci 2009-07-30 04:06 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for posting it. (Reply to this)

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