re: #564 researchok

Health care is not about overall cost per service. It is about quality of service.

Waits for surgery, waits to see a speacialist and long ER waits are a fact of life. Just recently, it was discovered that hospitals in the UK were keeping patients in ambulances so as to keep ER wait time down. Of course, that took ambulances out of circulation for a time. Thus, more money was allocated for ambulances.

My father is an MD in the UK. Trust me on this, it is no paradise. Stands and quality of care have gone down.

In Canada, the Supreme Court finally allowed patients to see and pay for MDs on their own. Before that, it was illegal. Yes, illegal.

There is a reason so many Canadians cross the border for treatment.

Which treatment do they cross the border for?

We have an abundance of extremely highly paid medical specialists here and a shortage of general practicioners. Of course we’ll have people crossing the border.

This is no more proof of our system working than a Ferrari Enzo is Italy’s proof that they can make an affordable car. I crossed the border to Italy to buy a Superleggera! That means Italy makes better cheap cars!

Ask a Canadian if they cross the border for their general practicioner. Enough said.

(man, it’s like all the idiot GOP talking points that were smacked down over and over again by Iceweasel and I during the HRC debate are being mindlessly brought up again. Did Limbaugh do a thing on health care today or something?)