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Originally Posted by mezz
Using big letters isn't going to make you right. I don't know when you lived in Canada, but things may have changed since the 1950's up there.
I've got some current connections up there and live there for a good portion of each year. My spouse is a medical practioner in a Canadian city (not the same one you lived in) and a close friend's wife is a lawyer for the government run health corporation in the same city. Stuff happens pretty much daily in the Canadian medical system that would end up the substance of malpractice lawsuits stateside... and people die that probably shouldn't all of the time.
All I know is that if I get seriously ill while in Canada (and I feel at the time that I'd like to live a little longer) then I'm probably going to insist on being flown down to the US (like pretty much anyone up there who can afford to do so does). I've just been lucky with my health so far and am grateful for it.
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Allright small letters then but it is still bull shit. I have family in just about every province because there are only about 45 families there with my surname. Those who are not direct family are cousins descended from a 3X Great Uncle, got a big farm in North Ontario, so I pretty well know what is going on in the health care scene. My second cousin was Chief Justice of the Alberta Supreme Court until he retired and another (who oddly enough has exactly the same names, christian and surname) is a crop scientist in Saskatchewan and my older sister lives in BC. Nieces and nephews in Ontario and Quebec. Sis is set for a pacemaker on the 24th - free.
However you just keep on with your manure spreader and speculation and complete lack of factual evidence. And yes, if you happen to get ill while up there do fly back here, no good reason why the Canadian taxpayer should look after you. Funny thing is that a few years back Florence said "If I ever need to be hospitalized take me up to Canada" - she has been in one down here and was not a happy camper.
If the system there is so bad why does your spouse practice there? As to the lawyer friend the only government run health corporation is the SinglePayer insurance corp, all else is either private or city/province owned hospitals. Doctors are all private. Canadian law is at least as stringent as here if not moreso, any malpractice would bring rather swift retribution. I don't recall hearing of any cases where the patient awaiting an amputation had to take a sharpie and write "This one" on the bad limb and "Not this one" on the good limb as happened in Florida.
As to anyone flying down here for care that would be limited to millionaires given the exhorbitant rates charged here. The SinglePayer plan does fly people down in instances where the condition is so rare in Canada that it simply does not pay to tie up a bed for the treatment. That happens because Canadians are so much healthier, look up the stats sometime.
I had recent experience of our local hospital and was not impressed, saying it is inefficient is being kind. That was all the running about I had to do when I tore a meniscus. It would all have been done at one hospital in Canada. Apart from things wearing out I take no prescription medications.