Comments on: Oh Canada … glorious and free

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:13:32 +0000

It sounds like somebody got an AK for Christmas

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:08:05 +0000

Well, it’s midnight here in Texas. The explosives arel probably going to keep going off for the next hour.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:43:04 +0000

My personal experience is almost 20 years old but AFAIK from Canadian friends there is still no ‘insurance’ option available. I believe docs can practice ‘outside’ the system – where the patient pays – but cannot then be part of the public system. For example, the ski resort area I spent winters in had an urgent clinic for all the non Canadians with minor issues – colds, flus, cuts, burns, and the like. Also there are private cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists.
I went to the urgent clinic when I found a small breast lump – doc told me not to worry, that’s not what a cancerous lump feels like.
Five months later my own doc felt the lump, told me not to worry, that’s not what a cancerous lump feels like but here take this script down the hall – we’ll get it imaged. Half and hour later we knew I had cancer. That delay in Canada for sure got me over the line into chemotherapy territory. Had it been addressed earlier I would have merely had radiation. Anyone here who’s had chemo knows what the difference is.
I often wonder how long it would have taken to diagnose if I had been Canadian. Would they have just blown off the ‘doesn’t feel like cancer lump’ until I was Stage 3 or something? That doc I saw could have told me to drive down to Washington and get it looked at. Did that not even occur to him? Friends tell me they don’t even do a baseline mammogram until 50 years of age. Imaging is where Canada really cuts costs.
Having said that I will be fair and say that Canadians I know who have had serious trauma injuries – ski and car accidents – have received first class care.

By: om

om — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:25:51 +0000

Obloodyhell:

There are “doctors” who will do many surgeries, for a fee, if you want a period.

It isn’t medicine.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:31:06 +0000

reality is much stranger than any bond tale

https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/trust-ze-science-part-v?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

By: Fantome

Fantome — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:24:26 +0000

I guess we’ll have to call Canadian doctors James Bond, since they’ll all have a license to kill.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:08:54 +0000

The idiots here who keep arguing for socialized medicine need to just move to Canada.

My favorite was the jerk who told me how well it worked in France. Except… France is really a combination system, where people who can afford it buy health insurance. And a LOT of people buy at least supplemental health insurance.

My understanding is that Canada precludes health care outside the system by law. Doctors can’t legally do it. No one can offer some sort of insurance.

By: Richard Cook

Richard Cook — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:28:34 +0000

Aesop Fan

I was a little confused by your post. I wasn’t paraphrasing Chesterton. Once humans replace God as the center alot more utilitarian solutions come into view that lack mercy or understanding. Or that each human is a creation loved by God.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:37:49 +0000

No. There are no excuses.

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:33:36 +0000

I think the absolute perfect Canadian moment was when their parliament led by Justin Trudeau gave a standing o to a Ukrainian Nazi. We’re all supposed to hate the Russians now. Nobody in the entire Canadian government peeled that onion and…

No. They just went right ahead and applaud Nazi Germany.