That couldn't have been easy ~
#1: don't you have to be absolutely still to get a clear image?
#2: that skinny little table in an mri machine...

Who would have thought...an MRI of sex?

The impressive thing is that the nail didn't shoot out of his skull and killed him in the MRI.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

That's the biggest misconception that all you non-Americans need to get your facts straight about. Canadians & Europeans look down their noses and say, "Oh how awful that you evil American's don't 'cover' all your people..." Bullcrap. There is a difference between being 'covered' and being TREATED. I would venture to say that the end result of the evil American system is that far more people are TREATED than in the precious socialized countries where everyone is 'covered' but is routinely denied treatment. I'd rather have a system where 42 million people weren't 'covered', but almost everyone was being treated as opposed to a system where everyone was 'covered' but that people are not treated.


Via Wiki

One complaint about both the U.S. and Canadian health care systems is waiting times, whether for a specialist, major elective surgery, such as hip replacement, or specialized treatments, such as radiation for breast cancer. Wait times in each country are affected by various factors. In the United States, access to health care is primarily determined by whether a person has access to funding to pay for treatment and by the availability of services in the area and by willingness of the provider to deliver service at the price set by the insurer. In Canada the wait time is set according the availability of services in the area and by the relative need of the person needing treatment.

A report published by Health Canada in 2008 included statistics on self-reported wait times for diagnostic services.[47] The median wait time for diagnostic services such as MRI and CAT scans is two weeks with 89.5% waiting less than 3 months.[47][48] The median wait time to see a special physician is a little over four weeks with 86.4% waiting less then 3 months. [47][49] The median wait time for surgery is a little over four weeks with 82.2% waiting less than 3 months. [47] [50] In the U.S., patients on Medicaid, the low-income government programs, can wait three months or more to see specialists. Because Medicaid payments are low, some have claimed that some doctors do not want to see Medicaid patients. For example, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, specialists agreed to spend one afternoon every week or two at a Medicaid clinic, which meant that Medicaid patients had to make appointments not at the doctor's office, but at the clinic, where appointments had to be booked months in advance.[51]

In Canada, waiting is prioritized by patient according to relative urgency, with urgent patients receiving immediate access and the least urgent waiting longer. [52] Studies by the Commonwealth Fund found that 42% of Canadians waited 2 hours or more in the emergency room, vs. 29% in the U.S.; 57% waited 4 weeks or more to see a specialist, vs. 23% in the U.S., but Canadians had more chances of getting medical attention at nights, or on weekends and holidays than their American neighbors without the need to visit an ER (54% compared to 61%).[53] However, statistics from the free market think tank Fraser Institute in 2008 indicate that the average wait time between the time when a general practitioner refers a patient for care and the receipt of treatment was almost four and a half months in 2008, roughly double what it had been 15 years before.[54]

A 2003 survey of hospital administrators conducted in Canada, the U.S., and three other countries found dissatisfaction with both the U.S. and Canadian systems. For example, 21% of Canadian hospital administrators, but less than 1% of American administrators, said that it would take over three weeks to do a biopsy for possible breast cancer on a 50-year-old woman; 50% of Canadian administrators versus none of their American counterparts said that it would take over six months for a 65-year-old to undergo a routine hip replacement surgery. However, U.S. administrators were the most negative about their country's health care system. Hospital executives in all five countries expressed concerns about staffing shortages and emergency department waiting times and quality.[55][56]

In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, the President and CEO of University Health Network, Toronto, said that Michael Moore's film Sicko "exaggerated the performance of the Canadian health system — there is no doubt that too many patients still stay in our emergency departments waiting for admission to scarce hospital beds." However, "Canadians spend about 55% of what Americans spend on health care and have longer life expectancy, and lower infant mortality rates. Many Americans have access to quality health care. All Canadians have access to similar care at a considerably lower cost." There is "no question" that the lower cost has come at the cost of "restriction of supply with sub-optimal access to services," said Bell. A new approach is targeting waiting times, which are reported on public websites

I've lived in Southern Ontario for most of my life, and 12 years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes. Since then I've made a few trips to the ER for various reasons. A non-diabetes related incident was when I moved into my first apartment with a roommate back 5 years go. I was doing dishes and washing the inside of a glass when it broke, I received a rather excellent cut to the knuckle of my right pinkie finger. My roommate drove me to the ER, the nurses snickered at our hap-hazard bandage of old socks and paper towels, and about 45 minutes later I was on my way home, all stitched up, and no worse for wear. Oh, and not worrying about cost.

I've gone to the ER when I've been very physically ill, and dehydrated from vomiting. This is a serious issue for anyone with Diabetes. I'm always treated in good time, and taken care of quite well. The hospital here (Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario), in my experiences, have always been fast and courteous. The only bill I've ever had to pay was for an ambulance ride ($50) when I had a seizure from heat stroke and low blood sugar two summers ago. Even after that experience I had to go for tests to make sure I wasn't epileptic. I was scheduled for an EEG and an MRI, and got both appointments the following week, only two days apart. And even those tests didn't take all day, I was in and out in less then two hours for both of them.

If I had to think about cost everytime I needed medical assistance, I'd go crazy. The fact I can walk into any ER in Ontario and just show them my OHIP card (Provincial photo health ID) and be treated is a substantial ease on my mind. I pay my taxes, and that helps keep this system running as it does. And it runs just fine.

If they every attempted to give us the health system the Americans have, I could almost guarantee there'd be riots in the streets.

My apologies, you worded it to sound like we pay premiums on top of our taxes. So, yes I pay premiums, I also pay them for Unemployment Insurance, I also pay for paving fees to make sure the roads are maintained, and I pay a surcharge on keeping the electrical grid functioning as well =P

In my current tax bracket, comparing the 2008 numbers, I pay 6% more than Americans in my bracket. But, of that, I reclaim up 25% of my income in medical expenses, and various other things I can write off. I'm not an accountant, but I'm sure the numbers work out that we're in the same ball park for finance. Your papers, like many senators and congressmen, are wrong. Personally, I don't believe anything the news says in the US. I get more truth out of the Daily Show and Colbert report than MSNBC, CNN or FOX. But which papers are reporting that? I'd love to see the links to the articles.

Delayed care is denied care.

If you have an emergency, they will treat you. They won't say, come back in an hour when we have time. If you have a tumour that needs to be operated on, they won't say, well lets see how it is in six months. They did ask me to wait, but gave me the option of having the surgery right away. I chose to wait for my own doctor, who is a great ENT surgeon; and suffered no nerve damage to my face. But, they gave me options to choose from, and I did. Are there wait times? Yes, for non life threatening conditions. I have to have an MRI and CT scan every year. I have to wait a long time, but they schedule me knowing that. I had one scheduled last October, and I have it this September, when I'm supposed to have it.

Again, not knowing how the insurance works down in the US, but I don't have 180 grand. That would have broken the piggy bank for sure. Would your insurance cover the 180 grand for the same procedure and operation, and would your rates go up afterwards? Would they still cover you afterwards? Maybe you should ask them =P

The more pertinent question is, how much did the tests cost you in taxes or provincial premiums? I paid $5K ONE year. The previous and subsequent years I paid very little (in the low hundreds) because I didn't have big needs. You, on the other hand, pay 2 or 3 thousand (average) a year into the Canadian tax system whether you need it or not. Over the course of your lifetime you are spending many thousands more than I am.

I don't think you understand how taxes work in Canada and the provinces. The answer is zero. I pay my federal and provincial and municipal taxes. I went up into a higher tax bracket not too long ago, and that's the only time I've had to change what I pay. We may pay a little more, I think it's 3-4% more, and I'm okay with that, if I'm helping pay for an MRI to help someone know they don't have cancer.

No - we don't have to agree with that because it is a patently false statement. Our system is different than your, but it is FAR from 'inferior'. The US system creates far more innovation, has better doctors, and far more rapid treatment times. It has its problems, but it is not a clear-cut obvious answer that a single-payer public option would solve those problems. Socialized medical plans are different. Not better. You pay for those so-called 'free' systems with higher taxes, longer wait times, and 'denied coverage' where in our super-evil private system we have no health tax, extremely fast treatment, and everyone gets treated whether they can pay or not. It isn't as black & white an issue as neolibs try to pretend it is.

There actually isn't any "denied coverage" in Ontario. They don't turn you away if you have a problem, they will take care of it. Wait times, do happen, but make sure you looking at all the numbers. There's something called: "The 90th percentile" Yes, if you have a non life threatening condition, lets say a new hip or knee, then yes you will wait.. But, the doctors know how the system works, so they will schedule you for that surgery down the road, when you will need it. Ninety percent of the numbers Republicans are using are from that, they don't look at the stats for people with life threatening conditions. As for better, Canada is ranked higher than the US in healthcare. Infact, lets count the third world countries that are ranked higher than one of the greatest industrialized nations in the world; or lets look at how much of the GDP is spent into health care and look at the results, if you're America, you're not number one, you're far from it, which is a shame for such a great country.

He is right when it comes to emergency care. The system has flaws when it comes to non-emergency but would you rather a no-charge 3 hour wait to have a bone set or wonder where you're going to come up with the money? I do hope that healthcare improves here but I would NEVER want the US system and can't understand how people are against adopting a hybrid style system.

The biggest failing in Canada is in diagnostic testing. It can take 4 to 8 months to have an MRI done while some private clinics in Alberta can see you same day if you pay for it. Those times need to be 1 month or less.

Dear LORD, I hate that accent. And medical bills are "mounting"? You didn't break any bones. You're getting an MRI? If doctors thought you were even close to needing one, you would have had one when you went to the hospital.

And now that I've watched the video, I can say with full ease that she's an idiot and deserved what she got. You were walking toward a couple of city workers in the process of doing something with the manhole. They were only ten feet away. That means there was a big white truck that probably had flashing amber lights and the workers most likely had orange vests. Nevermind the obvious noise involved with removing a cover. Also, we can know safely assume that the workers weren't just dicking around at the truck when they went for the cones, or the mother would have been sure to mention that. From that, we know that the girl wasn't very far away from the hole when the workers left to get it, because the time window to walk ten feet, grab shit, and walk back is NOT very big.

grown ass adults who are afraid of the CT machine. ITS A FUCKING HOLE! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET ON THE TABLE. seriously. its a 3 foot wide hole, youre in there for 5 minutes (usually) you feel nothing and youre done. so grow the fuck up shut the fuck up and get the fuck on the table and get your fucking scan already. shit! its not even the tunnel like MRI its literally just a shallow hole. imagine a donut, a big delicious donut that can swallow you whole and spit you out the other side. delicious. and youre an adult, get some composure or GTFO, im not pampering your childish ass anymore.

i have no compassion for this idiocy. zero. none.
unless youre a child, and then i can see why it would scare the crap out of you. cry away.

In my experience skateboards and bikes = MRI's = ton of debt

Socialized medicine sucks.

The US Postmaster General is now weeping to Congress that the PO has "run out of money". The USPO is a government-monopoly that claims it can no longer deliver the mail 6 days a week and wants to cut back.

Are American liberals now demanding Post Office-quality bureaucracies run the 14% of the US economy health care represents? Do they want FEMA-quality bureaucrats deciding whether your heart operation is in the budget?

The following is from a 1992 article about Canadian health care. How much worse it is today?

"Canada has had socialized medicine for 20 years, and the same pattern of deteriorating facilities, overburdened doctors, and long hospital waiting lists is clear. A quarter of a million Canadians (out of a population of only 26 million) are now on waiting lists for surgery. The average waiting period for elective surgery is four years. Women wait up to five months for Pap smears and eight months for mammograms. Since 1987, the entire country spent less money on hospital improvements than the city of Washington, D.C., which has a population of only 618,000. As a result, sophisticated diagnostic equipment is scarce in Canada and growing scarcer. There are more MRIs (magnetic resonance imagers) in Washington State, which has a population of 4.6 million, than in all of Canada, which has a population of 26 million.

"In Canada, as in Britain under socialized medicine, patients are denied care, forced to cope with increasingly antiquated hospitals and equipment, and can die while waiting for treatment. Canada controls health care costs the same way Britain and Russia do: by denying modern treatment to the sick and letting the severely ill and old die.

"Despite standards far below those of the United States, when variables such as America’s higher crime and teenage pregnancy rates are factored out, and when concealed government overhead costs are factored in, Canada spends as high a percentage of its GNP on health care as the United States. Today a growing chorus of Canadians, including many former champions of socialized medicine, are calling for return to a market-based system."

I never like those 5 videos being my top ones. But anyways, here is a list of top videos from people that are no longer active (or as active as before) and are great videosifters

plastiquemonkey

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i would have no problem making less money or paying higher taxes if it actually bought anything. and thanks to my house and my two precious little tax credits, i barely pay any taxes anyway.

the problem with the american health care system isnt completely economic anyhow. there is a culture of abuse in our attitudes towards health. i am certainly not saying this applies to all americans. but i have spent the last 7 years of my life working in an ER and watching the system be ritualisitcally abused, mostly by people ignorant of how to treat or prevent minor illnesses without jacking up a $10,000 ER bill or by dr's needing to make some extra money and ordering needless exams. or by the hospital administration saying "we want to buy a new MRI, order more MRI's so we can justify it!" oh, also when you earn less than you need to take care of yourself, diet, exercise and preventative applications fall by the wayside. its far cheaper to eat cheetos and frozen pizza than it is to eat fruits and vegetables. hooray obesity related illnesses! and besides think of all the money there is too be made off of diabetes and blood pressure medication. and in every town some dr is making a killing off bariatric surgery. fuck it, lets eat our way out of this mess. its time we experimented with an economy based in potato chip and lipitor sales.