If we'd eliminate the parasitic for profit insurance companies that take a 1/3 of all health care dollars off the top and provide no health care costs would drop drastically. The government administers medicare with a 3% overhead, but for-profit health care companies think they are entitled to 30% for doing the same thing.
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Originally posted by: MaddyHLVA
Hey if we pay about 52% of our income to the FEDS maybe we can have free health care like the canucks up north!
Originally posted by: MaddyHLVA
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Originally posted by: thezzzone
Canada ain't so bad afterall. Holy cow, we hear about this stuff occasionally and it boggles our liberal minds.
How a people that live in such a great and prosperous country (relatively speaking) could potentially be left financially destitute over an illness in the family is borderline barbaric IMHO.
Our neighbours to the south with adequate medical insurance coverage are very fortunate, as for the others, not so much.
Please forgive my ignorance for the question but it is a legitimate one from someone who doesn't know any better. Are there people there (U.S) that actually don't sleep well at night thinking that they or a family member better not get sick because of what it could do to them financially? (if so, that's some crazy sh$t man)
Canadien health care is great as long as you don't need it:
Emergency room waits - 6 hours
Hip repalcement - 43 weeks
MRI - 2 weeks
Surgery - 4 weeks
see a specialist - 4 weeks
I would say some of those waits are not too unlike some of ours. Some of the US ER's have wait times like that. I have waited 4 weeks for a surgery before and some specialists take longer than that to get into, most often do when you are a new patient.
Hey if we pay about 52% of our income to the FEDS maybe we can have free health care like the canucks up north!
