Posted by
Mick O. on Friday, October 05, 2007 6:29:17 PM
After Michael Moore's movie called Fatso... no Sicko. Anyway he spreads misinformation about Canadian Health care and how much better it is than here... even though I don't see him denouncing his citizenship and moving there, but I digress.
Here is a little internet article going around written by a supposed Canadian who tells what it's like to be one of the citizens paying for this FREE health care and what you get.
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Hey Guys; I saw on the news up here in Canada where the states may soon have something similar to what we have up here in Canada. As your friend and someone who lives with the Canada health care plan I thought I would give you some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada.
1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium every month of $96 for Shirley and I to be
covered. Sounds great eh? What they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health care system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of my earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of the exact amount goes directly to health care - our [nation's] #1 expense.
2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is more like a health diagnosis system. You can get in to to see a doctor quick enough so he can tell you "yes indeed you are sick or you need an operation" but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated on. We have waiting lists out the ying yang some as much as 2 years down the road.
3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in Canada is to prescribe drugs. Have a pain - here is
a drug to take - not what is causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because it is more important to move as many patients thru as possible each hour for Government reimbursement.
4) Many Canadians do not have a family Doctor.
5) Don't require emergency treatment as you may wait for hours in the emergency room waiting for treatment.
6) Shirley's dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and it required that his hand be put in a splint - to our surprise we had to pay $125 for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus we have to pay $60 for each visit for him to check it out each week.
7) Shirley's cousin was diagnosed with a heart blockage. Put on a waiting list. Died before he could get treatment.
8) Government allots so many operations per year. When that is done no more operations, unless you go to your local newspaper and plead your case and embarrass the government then money suddenly appears.
9) The Government takes great pride in telling us how much more they are increasing the funding for health care but waiting lists never get shorter. Government just keeps throwing money at the problem but it never goes away. But they are good at finding new ways to tax us, but they don't call it a tax anymore it is now a user fee.
10) My mother needs an operation for a blockage in her leg but because she is a smoker they will not do it. Despite her and my father paying into the health care system all these years. My Mom is 80 years of
age. Now there is talk that maybe we should not treat fat and obese people either because they are a drain on the health care system. Let me see now, what we want in Canada is a health care system for healthy
people only. That should reduce our health care costs.
(Editor's note: This is actually coming soon to a state near you. They are already discussing this in the US. Perhaps Michael Moore would die if something happened to him because he doesn't fit the criterion... justice!)
11) Forget getting a second opinion, what you see is what you get.
12) I can spend what money I have left after taxes on booze, cigarettes, junk food and anything else that could
kill me but I am not allowed by law to spend my money on getting an operation I need because that would
be jumping the queue. I must wait my turn except if I am a hockey player or athlete then I can get looked at right
away. Go figure. Where else in the world can you spend money to kill yourself but not allowed to spend money to get healthy.
13) Oh did I mention that immigrants are covered automatically at tax payer expense
having never contributed a dollar to the system and pay no premiums?
(Editor's note: They are trying to pass this through incrementally in the US starting with the SCHIPS program that Bush just vetoed! It was designed to cover "children" up to 25 years old, so two 25 year old "kids" could have free health care for themselves and their six children, even if they were not legal citizens! This is NUTS!)
14) Oh yeah we now give free needles to drug users to try and keep them healthy. Wouldn't want a sickly druggie breaking into your house and stealing your things. But people with diabetes who pay into the
health care system have to pay for their needles because it is not covered but the health care system... I just want to make sure that you hear the truth about health care up here and have some food for thought and informed questions to ask when broached with this subject.
Sounds compassionate to me! FREE heatlh care that costs over 55% of my paycheck AND does nothing to provide heatlh care for me... only illegals. Gee, I could have had a V8!