Robo
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As a Canadian, I am often bewildered by the American Left’s utopian albeit perfectly incorrect views of the Canadian healthcare system. The general notion, as exemplified in Michael Moore’s 2007 film Sicko, is that countries such as Canada and Cuba offer compassionate universal free healthcare to its citizenry while a diabolical consortium of capitalists headed by Dr. Evil runs the American system. Let me share some important realities regarding our “free” Canadian healthcare.
(1) Our healthcare is anything but free. We are levied some of the most punitive and exorbitant tax rates of all industrialized nations. Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(2) Margaret Thatcher famously quipped “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Let’s see how this played out within the Canadian healthcare system. For decades, Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(3) The Canadian healthcare system is so overburdened that it is difficult to find a family physician willing to take on new patients. Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(4) Let us suppose that you are facing a medical emergency. Have no fear, as our Canadian system is free and generous. You’ll only have to wait 8-14 hours in a hospital waiting room (as did my wife when she experienced a medical situation whilst pregnant with our first child). You might die while waiting but at least it is “free.”
(5) The failure of our Canadian healthcare system is so apparent (and so unsustainable) that in the last few years many Canadians have had to enroll in private health insurance programs! Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(1) Our healthcare is anything but free. We are levied some of the most punitive and exorbitant tax rates of all industrialized nations. Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(2) Margaret Thatcher famously quipped “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Let’s see how this played out within the Canadian healthcare system. For decades, Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(3) The Canadian healthcare system is so overburdened that it is difficult to find a family physician willing to take on new patients. Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
(4) Let us suppose that you are facing a medical emergency. Have no fear, as our Canadian system is free and generous. You’ll only have to wait 8-14 hours in a hospital waiting room (as did my wife when she experienced a medical situation whilst pregnant with our first child). You might die while waiting but at least it is “free.”
(5) The failure of our Canadian healthcare system is so apparent (and so unsustainable) that in the last few years many Canadians have had to enroll in private health insurance programs! Read more at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...-t-romanticize-the-canadian-healthcare-system