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*sigh* here we go again. This tiresome debate all over again.
All I'm going to say is this: over the past 2 years alone I've had treatments, appointments, scans, tests and x-rays that would have in total cost an uninsured US citizen roughly $300,000+ in medical costs. In a few more days I will be having another facet block intervention procedure, something that runs anywhere from $20k to $40k per treatment in the US. I will be having another MRI scan done on my lower back in the late fall as well, and by then I will be due for my next course of injections to my back.
The bill to me so far: $0.00. And the care has been exemplary.
My sister in law was diagnosed with cancer in her lower abdomen roughly ten years ago. She had all of her medical care done here in Canada and still does... what would have amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills in the US. She's alive and healthy today and has had $0 bills handed her. (St Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg has an excellent cancer research and treatment facility, as does Vancouver where she is currently going for all of her ongoing followups)
Don't even get me started on how much medical care my mother has required in the past dozen years, including several lengthy hospital stays. Probably over a million bucks worth if she were an American. Again, $0.
Any Canadian griping about our healthcare is free to seek out other doctors in Canada, other specialists, go where the care is more to your liking, or else get your ass south of the border and pay through the nose. No one's holding a gun to anyone's head here.
$0. High quality care. Is it perfect? No, no system is. But from where I sit it's a whole lot better than the "Insurance System" they have going on down south.
Warchild's post --- spot on.
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