Canadian and American Healthcare ?

[Monkeyman]

as an American living in Canada.....NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChristopherHall]

Would you believe that a man I really respect and have counted as an internet buddy on forums told me,

I hate your politics and wish you and everyone like you would just move

He said this because I advocate for universal health insurance coverage and greater focus on domestic security in relation to terror in the United States, not real big on the Pres's Iraq policy. Dude...that's just incredible. There may come a time when I have to leave America and have to seek political asylum in Canada. LOL

[ChristopherHall]

I wonder...since being a Christian in America requires that you agree with political conservatives in America on all points...do they think Canadians, who are typically more liberal politically than American Christians, are lost?

[ChristopherHall]

Isn't it funny how many conservative Americans have a lot to say about the Canadian health care system...but they're not willing to talk to Canadians about it?

[ReformedDave]

Originally Posted by ChristopherHall

Isn't it funny how many conservative Americans have a lot to say about the Canadian health care system...but they're not willing to talk to Canadians about it?

Not entirely true. My cousins live in London Ontario and have had their real problems with the system.

[Felicity]

Our healthcare system isn't perfect. There are problems, but personally speaking I and my family have always been taken care of quickly and efficiently whenever there was any kind of problem. Thankfully, we've all been very healthy with only minor issues from time to time.

What I don't understand is the condescending superior sneering attitude many Americans (even on this forum) have shown toward our healthcare system and country.

I sure haven't seen that on the part of Canadians toward the US, and I sure can't see where the American healthcare system is any better. So it's not like they can hold their system up as the model everyone should use. So why the attitude?

This post isn't directed to anybody in particular. Just some thots I've had for a while now as I've read comments in general.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Felicity

Our healthcare system isn't perfect. There are problems, but personally speaking I and my family have always been taken care of quickly and efficiently whenever there was any kind of problem. Thankfully, we've all been very healthy with only minor issues from time to time.

What I don't understand is the condescending superior sneering attitude many Americans (even on this forum) have shown toward our healthcare system.

I sure haven't seen that on the part of Canadians toward the US, and I sure can't see where the American healthcare system is any better. So it's not like they can hold their system up as the model everyone should use. So why the attitude?

This post isn't directed to anybody in particular. Just some thots I've had for a while now as I've read comments in general.

As an American who has not had sufficient healthcare, and only as of last week finally has Blue Cross...and as one who will be in the days and weeks to come having to deal with further insufficiencies in the system, I can only say that our way is not the better way.

Whew...long sentence, eh?!

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Do Canadians wish they had a health care system like America's?

Originally Posted by TRIPLE E

Definately not.

Originally Posted by Mrs. LPW

Nope!

Originally Posted by Destiny2

Never!

Originally Posted by Monkeyman

as an American living in Canada.....NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there you have it. In the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses let the fact that Canada's healthcare system is a good one and one to be thankful for be established! Ha!

And my Yankee husband would agree and so would other Americans I know who are living in Canada.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Barb

As an American who has not had sufficient healthcare, and only as of last week finally has Blue Cross...and as one who will be in the days and weeks to come having to deal with further insufficiencies in the system, I can only say that our way is not the better way.

Whew...long sentence, eh?!

If you were a Canadian you'd have already been in and out of hospital and on the road to recovery weeks ago.

[Truly Blessed]

I have lived in Canada since 1973 and I personally know of no one who has lost their home, had to file bankruptcy, had to choose between going to the doctor or feeding their children, etc. because they had no Health Care Plan. Can you Americans say the same? I know that I have family who have gone through severe financial difficulty because of health care cost in the USA. Americans SHOULD be embarrassed to be the only country in the developed world that does not offer its citizens public tax-based health care.

Should the USA admit they got it wrong years ago and immediately do whatever they must to correct their mistake? Read the following article by Holly Dressel and YOU decide!

"Should the United States implement a more inclusive, publicly funded health care system? That's a big debate throughout the country. But even as it rages, most Americans are unaware that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't already have a fundamentally public--that is, tax-supported--health care system.

That means that the United States has been the unwitting control subject in a 30-year, worldwide experiment comparing the merits of private versus public health care funding. For the people living in the United States, the results of this experiment with privately funded health care have been grim. The United States now has the most expensive health care system on earth and, despite remarkable technology, the general health of the U.S. population is lower than in most industrialized countries. Worse, Americans' mortality rates--both general and infant--are shockingly high.

To be continued....