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Reply to "To My American Friends - Let's talk Affordable Healthcare"

yuji22 posted:
Mars posted:
kp posted:

Basic healthcare is free in Canada, drugs you pay. Free healthcare benefits the poor, they don't eat well, they don't exercise, they work physically hard, they don't diet, these are the people that get sick. The waiting time for surgery is six to ten months, an MRI is three months, but if you can pay ,you can have surgery in days also MRI. Yes, when you are 65 and older drugs are free, but nothing is really free, we in Canada pay very high taxes and have high cost of living. The same job in the USA pays up to 50% more than Canada and that is US dollars, in the USA food is cheaper, gas is cheaper etc., I do pay for a private health insurance via Sunlife, I need the best care my health comes first.

What's so great about Canadian healthcare if you have to wait six to ten months for a surgery?

Total nonsense. It is done immediately is it is life threatening. Six to ten months is nonsense.

KP is so scared of using the public healthcare system that he buys a private insurance. So you are taxed through the nose to pay for the public system and if you want something reliable, you still have to buy private insurance.

Mars
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