Jim wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:
Jim wrote:
Listening to the anti abortion people protest any health plan that
would possibly include abortion, I was wondering what they do in
other countries to appease these opposite beliefs.

From:
http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/postionpaper...lly-Funded.PDF


The politicizing of abortion led to the current situation of one-half
of all abortions in Canada being performed at mostly private clinics.
Abortion clinics opened in the first place because hospitals were
failing to provide adequate services on a fair and equal basis for
Canadian women.

Hard to read that document and not see the logic.

Canadian liberals are a dogmatic bunch. They don't believe in freedom
of choice in much of anything from abortion, taxation, etc. They are
the first to impose their often myopic views on others.

As for our hospitals, the government services are not that good up
here. You should take note as at the rate the government is going,
they smell health care as a source of general revenue. It is coming
to a hospital near you in the USA.

Despite what you might hear, medical services aren't that good down in
the good Old USA either.

I had a sudden hearing loss issue that wasn't treated even though I was
in the doctor's office the next day. You have one week for treatment,
then it's permanent.

The doctors (several of them) diagnosed it as long term hearing loss,
which isn't treatable. Eventually United Health intervened and I got
treatment. Five weeks too late.

"Gee we are sorry," was all I got from the initial doctors.

My lesson was that I should have had hearing tests as part of my regular
physical so that there would be no argument about long term versus
sudden hearing loss.

I had the tests, but they chose, initially, to ignore them as they
weren't THEIR tests. Eventually someone looked at them and said this
isn't long term hearing loss.

Now I know something that's pretty damn important.

Oh, they already know about profit based health care. Trust me.

In Canada, you would wait 8 to 16 weeks just to see a doctor. First,
you go to a clinic and a technician (not neccessarily a doctor), they do
a 1 minute exam and submit the paperwork to the regional health care and
IF they approve it, you see a specialist.

I have lived on both sides of the border, I have used both systems. 90%
of Americans are better off in the USA as it is. For the 10% (or less)
they are not often because of their own stupidity. Less than 1% are in
a real hole there wasn't much they could do bout it.

So, like a classroom of kids you support service levels to the lowest
intelligence? In the case of health care, government runs it with no
competetion and revenue in mind lowers the servies standard to the UK or
Canada while skiming the tax revenue for statism?

My wife had a ovarian cyst. Took 3 1/2 months to see the doc, 28 weeks
was the initial wait for surgery. Fortunately someone canceled and it
was only 9 weeks. Who knows, maybe they died waiting? It was unknown
if it was cancerious but after the surgery, my prayer came true that it
was not.

Think twice, the decision Americans are making in this subject is for
practical purposes irreversable. And the amount of BS coming from
government hungry for your health care dollars as revenue speaks for itself.