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Old 07-03-2007, 12:20 PM  
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Originally Posted by BradM View Post
BP - I lived in Canada all of my life and I moved to the US a few years ago. I have been in hospitals in both countries for life threatening illnesses.

US medical care is faster, more efficient and of higher quality in my opinion.

I have Blue Cross health insurance and the network hospital I went to was amazing and the services that ran over $30,000 cost me a $500 overnight copay. In Canada they'd keep me there for days running tests waiting for specialists to arrive from other provinces etc etc.

Bottom line is I'd rather get sick in the US with insurance than in Canada with socialized healthcare.

The difference is, in Canada if you can't afford the treatment you can still get it. In America it's only faster if your health insurance doesn't try to fight the claim. That is if you can afford to pay for the health insurance.

As someone pointed out in another topic. Consider yourself a average College aged student say 22 years old and out on your own.

You haven't graduated college yet so there is no big bucks coming in. Mommy and daddy aren't paying for your health insurance and you are just scraping by to barley afford college it's self, much less worry about health insurance.

Bad luck comes your way and you need an operation on your appendix.. In canada you get the operation and continue on your way. In the United States, if you are lucky enough to get the operation with out insurance. Well you will end up owing about 20 thousand dollars.

That's just a simple appendix operation..

The diffrence is sure in America you can get great medical treatment if you can Afford it. In Canada you can still get good medical treatment, even if you can't afford it.
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