Canada reminds Americans that they could have decent medical, housing, and other social benefits if it wasn't busy feeding the parasite...
Nine-month wait for an oncologist, once a GP referral is made.
I met a guy in Calgary, when riding up to Banff, across the prairie on the Canadian side. I needed a part for my Suzuki, and went to the dealer I found. The parts man at the counter was mid-twenties, but hobbling like an old gimp.
He didn't have the part but thought he could get it from another dealer. He made a call, and we waited for an answer...and talked.
Turns out he was a professional motocross racer; and this dealership had sponsored him. He'd had a wreck on the track - of course they had medical staff standing by, and he got hustled down to the clinic. They did x-rays, told him no broken bones, and sent him home, with instructions to return in 30 days. Nope, you gotta be really sick for them to put you up in a government hospital.
He went home, soaked his ankles...and saw they were turning black and blue and aching like broken bones will. He went back to the clinic, and asked to be examined...NO, he was told, your appointment is in 28 days. Come back then. Not before.
He did so. On the follow-up, looking at his grisly ankles, he had further x-rays and it turned out there were fractures in both. NOT ONLY THAT, but since the bones weren't set, they were healing improperly. He would need surgery and pinning.
The next available date for surgery was in eight months. Or, five months from when we talked.
Think about that.
Remember Mark Steyn, the columnist and sometimes fill-in for Limbaugh? Canadian. He used to be a regular writer for National Post, the conservative Canadian newspaper, back when conservative newspapers were allowed in Canada. I'd read it when I stayed in Toronto - way back when I was allowed in Canada.
Steyn had a lot to say about the pathetic state of Ontario's provincial health network. He once, 25 years ago, described the case of a young man who was out hitting the bars with friends, on a Saturday night. He was half-in the bag, slipped off his bar stool, and hit his head.
That was it for the party - he was cut off and asked to leave. Not that he needed encouraging - he was in pain.
His friends drove him to the hospital ER. There, he was asked for his Health Card.
He didn't have it with him.
They refused to see him or treat him in any way until they had his Health Card.
His friends drove him back home. They offered to wait while he found his card, but he said, no, he'd just call a taxi, it wasn't a long trip. He went inside his apartment.
He was found dead two days later. A brain bleed.
Government hospital. You don't have your PAPERS? You will NOT be treated!
Thank you...if there's one thing BammyKair should have shown us all, is that ANY time, ANY way, the government gets involved it farks everything up. It took affordable health insurance, with options on co-pay and deductible, and forced a one-size-fits-all onto everyone. AND COSTS EXPLODED.
Put that directly onto the medical industry - take it over by government - and you'll have the same mess the provincial health ministries have in Canada, or the NIH in the UK, has.
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