I find this video to be truthful as far as my experience goes. If you have something wrong with you, and you go to the hospital in Canada, you will receive as much care as you need until you are well, to the best of the doctors ability. Until Americans are willing to pay for their health care while they are healthy, there will continue to be these ridiculous problems. Americans need to realize that not every tax is bad, and until you're willing to accept that reality, you are not providing for the betterment of your fellow citizens. If you don't care about other people, feel free to keep fighting about health care. It is completely beyond me why you don't get a health care bill every three months in the mail like we do here (except Alberta, where they have stopped coming altogether). It is a bill you can feel good about, because it is not going to major pharmaceutical companies, or oil corporations, it is rather a down payment on your future, and your health, and the health of the people around you.

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Basically what happened with health care in Canada is that the last two liberal governments were corporate liberals that slashed corporate taxes and to balance the budget cut health care funding to the provinces. And the present conservative government did the same thing. From the 1950s to the early 1990s there wasn't a problem with health care in Canada. But there is a problem now in that we don't train enough doctors by a huge factor. It's the result of systemic cuts over almost two decades.
The truth is that Canadian politicians from both major parties have bought into Thatcherism, Reaganism, whatever you want to call it. The two main political parties in Canada, like the US are dislocated from the people in that they are ideologically bent on serving those that control our resources. For Canada it's oil locally and mining internationally. Popular social programs like a universal child care program in Canada, which had overwhelming support, is relatively cheap, and the program it was based on in Quebec cut child poverty in half in under a decade, will never be considered by our modern liberal or conservative leaderships. They don't listen to the population.
Alright I'll stop ranting.

Geo321:

I can't speak for other Provinces but in British Columbia the number of Doctors trained annually has tripled over the last 6 years, I understand this sort of effort is happening elsewhere in Canada too.

As for the crazy woman who went on American TV to dis the Canadian system, she didn't have a "tumor" at least not in the common sense, she had a liquid build-up NOT cancer, various doctors who are highly educated on the subject have said that if she'd waited for her Canadian surgery rather than going to the states the only side-effects she'd have encountered during that time could be some visual problems which would have cleared up after the surgery and even that was unlikely... If left for years and years, yes it would have eventually killed her but it was not anywhere near as serious as she makes it out to be.

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