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John Chittick's avatar

Single payer health care monopoly sanctity is just one of hundreds of elements of Canada's sociologically toxic politics that make western separation so appealing as nothing can seemingly change for the better within confederation. It is a disgrace that people who want to spend their own money on their own health care are not allowed to do so within their own country. Having had to flee the deranged dominion for surgery that would have required waiting times that would have left me broke, crippled and likely incontinent, I told the president of the BCMA that the most significant component of our health care safety net was the Nexus lane at the border.

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GJS's avatar

I don't know whether it's because there are so many stakeholders wedded to the status quo, or if it's 50+ years of the media highlighting (semi-truthful) stories about Americans who went to the doctor for a hangnail and ended up bankrupt, but one of life's greatest frustrations is that almost any attempt to have a rational, adult conversation about healthcare reform invariably gets met with "oh you'd prefer we have the American system?". When you point out that many other nations use some kind of hybrid approach and have better outcomes with lower per capita costs, they look at you like you're you're from Mars.

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