Legend11 said:
If you ever find yourself in a serious accident you'll be singing the praises of our system because that's really where it shines. The majority of bankruptcies in the United States have medical costs as a signficant factor. Also for those that will try to blame that on a lack of health insurance, 75% of such bankruptcies are from families covered by health insurance.* As for your 1 out of 10 claim, where are you getting that from? Are you claiming 9 out of 10 Canadians die because of inadequate medical care? Are you saying 9 out of 10 people in Canada don't get adequate medical care? Seriously what exactly are you claiming and show us some numbers to back up your claim.
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While I'm not going to try to support his statistics ...
The Canadian healthcare system has been on a steady decline throughout my entire life, and what we now have is a system that is crumbling and falling apart and is unlikely to survive another 10 years without substantial reform. Unfortunately, there has been significant brainwashing in Canada and people are taught from a very young age that universal healthcare is one of Canada’s crowning achievements which prevents a large portion of the population from being willing to accept the flaws; and most reasonable suggestions (to put us on par with the best healthcare systems around the world) are immediately discounted because they would lead to an "American Style Healthcare System"
The main problem is the Canadian healthcare system is seeing the same kind of uncontrolled cost increase that every (western) healthcare system is seeing; and most of the attempts to control costs have resulted in lower quality and access to healthcare, and the infrastructure (both physical and otherwise) has not been able to keep up to date.
People who use the Canadian healthcare system as a model of greatness (or even claim that it is adequate) are uninformed or misleading people.