America Is Out-Performing The “Medical
Paradise” Of Canada In Procedure Wait Times
RedState,
by
Brandon Morse
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/19/2019 10:27:46 AM
In the course of every debate about Medicare in the United States, someone on the left will eventually bring up Canada. Glorious Canada, where medicine flows freely down panacea rivers and Canadians don’t have to pay a dime for it.
Only none of that is true. It’s a horrendous healthcare system with horrible wait times, excessive costs via taxes, and you’re forced to pay for everybody’s bad decisions in regard to how they lived their life. Regardless of this being the reality, leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders will tell you how much better Canada’s healthcare system is as opposed to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Saryden 7/19/2019 10:39:36 AM (No. 128151)
A recent visitor from Canada expressed surprise in how everything is so much cheaper here. She apparently was unaware that Canada's VAT added at least 22% to everything they buy... to pay upfront for their "free" healthcare. And she complained of the long wait for that healthcare. Ain't Socialism grand! Dimocrats want that "free" healthcare for us... and for the illegals.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dwa 7/19/2019 11:03:51 AM (No. 128170)
Let's also not forget that a lot of Canada's socialist programs are made possible because their neighbor to the south, i.e., the USA, provides them security by our military umbrella for North America. That enables them to spend less for their military and more for their socialism. That point is often overlooked.
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feet2fire 7/19/2019 11:25:15 AM (No. 128188)
More of a question than an input here...does anyone know where Canadian-born Alex Trebec is getting treatment for his medical condition? We do wish him well.
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Clinger 7/19/2019 11:42:33 AM (No. 128203)
Mrs. Clinger is a leader in a health related support group. We are regularly exposed to the horrific stories of suffering associated with "free" government healthcare. Of course like any segment of society banded together by something in common outside of the political realm, the open political banter is virtually 100% leftist and vehemently anti Trump. Yes, from the same people who pour their souls out in frustration over their lousy rationed incompetent government healthcare. We keep our yaps shut.
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The American public and insurance companies pay the highest cost for prescription medications that subsidizes the cost for the rest of the world. If our prices go down, the cost will go up in every other country.
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lakerman1 7/19/2019 1:16:24 PM (No. 128287)
I taught Benefits Administration at the graduate level, for 20 years, plus, our daughter works and lives in Canada, so I know what I'm talking about.
Each province budgets X dollars for specific kinds of surgery, per year. If you need lumbar fusion surgery, and the budget has been exhausted, spent, for the year, your surgery is deferred until the new budget year. Thus the delay.
In most provinces, if neonatal care is needed, the mother and newborn baby are shipped to the U.S.
Primary care physicians have no incentive to take on new patients. It took our daughter several years to find one. Up until then, she had to go to clinics, so there was no continuity of care. And her government care did not cover prescriptions. She is in 3 different performing arts unions, and she pays union dues, part of which cover her prescription costs. (She is a ballerina, actress, model, all requiring union memberships.)
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ladydawgfan 7/19/2019 2:00:15 PM (No. 128313)
RE #3:
Alex Trebek has been a US Citizen since 1998. He's probably getting his medical treatment in a hospital or clinic close to his home in the Los Angeles area.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 7/19/2019 2:15:13 PM (No. 128330)
Apologies for the second post. My younger brother was recently diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer. Apparently his doctors found a mass while doing diagnostics for another problem he was having. At stage 1, there is a 90+% chance of survival but they need to shake a stick and get it out. He is already undergoing chemo and will be coming here to Mayo Jax for a second opinion and then to have to cancer removed.
Had he lived in Canada, his cancer would have grown and probably spread before treatment was started and we would have lost him. I imagine Alex Trebek is ALSO glad to be getting his cancer treatment in the US instead of Canada.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2019 3:02:25 PM (No. 128352)
I spent a day with a Canadian engineer, clearly an Irish immigrant from his accent. He told a bitter tale of his wife going from some hip pain to a wheelchair in agony during a years long wait to get a hip replacement in Canada. He finally paid $50K cash to have it done in Ireland.
Contrast that with my college roommate who got a new hip last week. He called to tell me he decided that the hip was getting painful in late May, because we are meeting in England later this year for a vacation. He had the surgery about 6 weeks after he decided. I had a knee replacement 2 months after I decided to go that route.
Socialism is all about shortages, deprivation and rationing......but "free". Hideous system.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
feet2fire 7/19/2019 7:22:53 PM (No. 128523)
#7, thank you for answering my question. Would have been interesting if Mr. Trebec had tried to return to Canada to get medical care for his condition.. Again, we wish Alex and all who suffer from serious conditions well.
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Bernie tells lies. I know of no one - including me and family members, none of whom has private insurance - who has had to wait for approval of medical procedures, surgeries, etc. If there is a wait, it is days or a few weeks to allow for pre-surgery prep (re stopping certain meds) and the surgeon’s schedule.