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Canadians... is this true about your healthcare?
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[quote:.9999 Silver:MV8yMDM5MDk1XzM0Mjc4ODc3X0M0QzJFN0Q1] Canada is moving into a heavily subsidized public/private clinic system.. you must pay a base premium. When you go to most doctors and clinics now they have a checklist to rate how bad you need service. If you answer wrong you get moved down the list. If you need an MRI you have to go through the checklist of procedures, a bill is produced for each stage. Then you can go to the next profitable level for the Public/private system that is now developing. Administrative cost and CEO wages have gone through the roof accounting for most if not all of the cost increases. We have all the money in the world for equipment, and Administration. I know tons of people who's coverage is below the upper social tiers access levels. You managed to find a Doctor outside of the walk in clinics... even the Doctors have a checklist now... wrong answer you get moved to the back of the line. Here... the 1 key correct answer is that you have major pain and it is unbearable... then they will move you forward... Your medical record's are now government/state property, with sales right to the medical information granted to private companies. they even have a fee schedual for the companies for producing these records. price's for a single record, to prices for thousands of records. You no longer own your medical information the Nannie state does and can sell it at a profit to whoever it decides for whatever use the purchaser decides. Everything is billed in 15 min time blocks. the clinics that act as street level access hire fresh out of school meat, make it easy to do formula medical care and proscribe the "correct" "Pharma drugs". Here you can buy access, bypass the system, and use Public facilities and bump the public line for publicly paid for equipment and facilities. beware who makes the profit on a public system. The medical suppliers here now have publicly guaranteed profits with no real limits on profits. They also have the benefit of access to publicly paid for facilities without the liability of funding them. on the other side people figure they have a right to see a doctors for every little sniffle(get a Publicly paid for Flu shot right now), scratch (a shot), Tired (a Vitamin shot)......plus the doctors visit,etc,etc,etc... Now who pays for all this and how. Do some compound interest work on the numbers to see when it blows up (How many Years)... and it will, I guarantee it. The medical service level from the 80's here has gone to shit... the profits(cost increases) have not gone to the public/private system here. They do not go back into the care system, instead they line the corporate profit margin's. No benefit increase in the quality of service... Just formula check lists... maxing out the cost to the system. And I'm a died in the wool Commie by the way. But I look after my own health as much as possible now. Fuck the public and private nannie state assholes. The moment you take any tax break, or any money from the Public/Government you are a publicly socialized Welfare bum. Period. I don't give a shit whether you claim you are a socialist or a conservative. You expect someone else to pay for your sense of entitlement and rights. Beware of what you ask for. You just might get it. Silver current average radiation level in Vancouver Canada is .149 uSv/hr based on the last 30 day's average. 1 minute samplings 24/7. up from .134 uSv/hr last month [/quote]
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I live in Pennsylvania and last night a political ad came on the TV with a Canadian woman. She had a brain related eye condition that had caused partial blindness and needed urgent surgery to save her vision and her life. She was told there would be a 4 month wait in Canada so she came to the US for her care because she fortunately had the resources. She said that we in the US need to be informed that under Obamacare we will have the same kind of healthcare crises due to long waits. very disturbing. I realize this was a potical ad, but I have always felt that Obamacare would mean rationing and long wait times. What do you say? I say we need to fix the US healthcare system without putting the gov't in control or scenarios like this are likely!
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