Canada health care needed a nuclear bone scan done today cost about 15 dollars for parking. I will

[buzzard]

take this any day it did not bankrupt me in fact had no impact overall as should be in my opinion. I will gladly pay extra in taxes for this luxury.

[rockymountaindem]

1. So when do they get around to euthanizing you for being a burden on the system?

[gateley]

5. When the socialized system deems her "shovel-ready". nt

[REP]

2. My MRIs (both shoulders) won't even cost me parking fees this Thursday

Everyone should have healthcare.

[buzzard]

6. I don't mind paying for parking, I do realize this is costly for our Country but it is something I

value much more each day.

[Edweird]

14. They don't validate??? The monsters!

[peace13]

3. Rup, I have a Canadian friend, 32 years old with Cystic Fibrosis.

He is in and out of the hospital on a monthly rotation and will be needing a lung transplant. Access to health care and money to pay for all of this is not an issue for him. In the US he would be in real trouble as he would have been denied coverage as a child. His family would be in financial trouble to boot. I feel that the majority of the folks making a stink about health care in the US already have some form of federal coverage. Very sad for the rest of us.

Good luck with your tests. Peace, Kim

[Hello_Kitty]

4. I loved the socialized medicine I got in the U.S. Navy. eom

[elocs]

8. I use VA healthcare as an example to freepers as to what is actually socialized medicine

and Medicare as to what is a single payer. Even then they have difficulty understanding the concepts.

So if VA healthcare is socialized medicine why would it then be good enough for our vets?

[Cleobulus]

7. And America's HCR will do absolutely nothing to mitigate this cost for most...

Americans who won't qualify for Medicaid.

[ipaint]

9. Here in this country we are about to be shackled to for profit ins. companies for life.

Of course this has nothing to do with access to health care just the forced purchase of what is basically unusable insurance.

Uniquely American and all.

As an uninsured person I am glad to see there are sane, humane countries with successful plans. Wish we were going to be one of them. But our government is corrupt to the core.

If I was younger and/or wealthier I would move to Canada. My relatives living in Canada are thrilled with the health care system.

[marmar]

10. Take the TTC next time.

:) :hi:

[OnlinePoker]

11. I just read this post and would like to know where you are in the country and how long you waited.

Two personal stories about the bad side of Canadian health care:

After over a year of having symptoms, my brother was finally given a colonoscopy in October of last year which showed cancer. It took until December to get an MRI to see how big the tumor was, but given his being a metal worker, there was so much crap in his system that the MRI proved inconclusive. In February, he finally started a six week radiation and chemo regime to try and shrink the tumor and will have an operation "sometime in April". Sure he doesn't have to pay for this (except the monthly BC med payments), but I can't help but think if he'd lived in the States, he'd have access to the diagnostics much faster, even if he had to pay for it (I would have payed for him to have his MRI sooner, but the walk-in clinic he uses because he can't find a family doctor won't accept non-public results).

Last Saturday, my 80 year old aunt fell in the laundry room of her senior's complex and broke her arm between shoulder and elbow and had two breaks in that same shoulder. The hospital didn't have the parts to repair her so splinted her arm and bound it to her body and sent her home on Tuesday saying to come back on the 26th. This isn't for surgery to repair the breaks, this is to see if they have the materials to do the surgery.

B.C. currently spends 42% of the provincial budget on health care. We're running a deficit of $1.5 Billion. The well is dry and we aren't given the option, if we so choose, to spend our own money to fix ourselves. Meanwhile, the province is trying to encourage medical tourism for people to come into the province for medical care. We can't even get the waiting lists down to a reasonable level for the people we have living here and they want to bring in even more. My physiotherapist says they are currently booking MRI's here in Victoria for February, 2011. Don't hold Canada's health model up as a great system. We may not pay much ($76 each a month for my wife and I), but the delay in treatment is unacceptable in my opinion and is causing needless suffering.

[LWolf]

12. I'd take it, too.

:(

[Lars39]

13. My last MRI was close to 4000 dollars.

Three years down the road I still don't have it all payed off. I need another one, but can't afford it.

[Edweird]

15. I'll be working on joining you in about 9 months.