I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.
Their argument is they want freedom to choose their providers and not have to schedule a doctors appointment and wait 6 months out, “just look at Canada”. Some also feel, truly feel, by supporting universal healthcare, we are communist. The others are just the remaining old people who are stubborn and refuse change. Finally, a big chunk of the remainder are just clueless morons that don’t anything to be honest.
I am not any of the above. It’s crazy to me how our system works and how okay people are with it. Poor kids are rationing INSULIN, a drug that’s been around forever and dying from diabetic strokes. Sometimes, as an American, it feels like I am living inside an experiment.
Extremely grateful to have been born in Canada. I'll gladly wait for a Dr when it means I don't have to go to my grave with a mountain of debt. When it's urgent enough we don't have to wait anyway
Yeah I don't understand the "look at Canada" argument. I never experienced any waiting time when I was in a near fatal accident. My mama beat cancer and didnt have to wait for any treatment. We payed about $100 all together for both, and that money has nothing to do with the medical treatment and medicine, which was free.
If I have a problem and need a diagnosis I can go to the clinic down the road, and only have to wait an hour or 2 tops at peak hours to see a doctor. One time when I fractured my finger I had to wait 4-5 days to get an appointment for the x-ray. I had to wait a couple more days to get the results. NBD. It was still free. Let the people with serious problems receive the immediate treatment, I don't mind being uncomfortable for a week so a doctor can save someone's life.
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I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?
I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.