Stuart Browning highlights the plight of an Ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the US to get the medical care that is rationed in his home country.
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This is some funny stuff here. The current health care reform does not involve “government-run health care.” It relates to payment of insurance for private care. The VA is the only care that is government-run. Folks should get their facts straight before offering such “strongly held” opinions.
Anyone who wants Obamacare should go to ANY VA facility and just sit for one day with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. Those who get care from the VA receive excellent medical care. However, the clerical staff are all civil servants and most come with a builrt-in attitude from hell. The waits are long — I was wait-listed for 3 years for a brain MRI and waited 6 months for sahoulder surgery. AND I HAVE THE HIGEST PRIORITY AT TH VA because I am a Combat-wounded vet)
Hateblade, there is no such thing as “public charity.” Charity, by definition, is someone giving to another VOLUNTARILY.
When the government seizes taxes from your wages, at the barrel of a gun, that is theft, not charity.
RayINURay, I’ve heard how much you Canadians pay in taxes to support your socialist nanny-state, and that makes ME laugh.
EVERYTHING the gov’t gets involved in gets more expensive. Everything. Part of the reason health care here is so expensive is because the gov’t is so involved already.
We’re Cdns living in the US and we feel “lucky” to pay $350/month for the privilege of SUBSIDIZED HMO insurance….and that’s on top of taxes. This is a worst case scenario but why aren’t you hearing from the milions of people who are treated for health issues every single day and who aren’t drowning in debt or sacrificing futures for hlth care. THIS IS PROPAGANDA pure and simple. Ask a Candadian what they think about this video & they’ll laugh.
This is outrageous. The quality of health care is in the dumps in Hungary (former Communist country), so it makes since if someone goes to Vienna from Hungary if they have a serious problem. But CANADA!!??
You should always have the option of private medical help available to you no matter what!
You are right, mortgaging one’s home is only an option for the 70% of Americans who are home owners, and most of them already have health insurance.
I have no problem with a taxpayer subsidy to buy poor people health insurance on the free market. This would cover the 20% of people who can not afford health insurance. But I object to throwing the rest of us in to a socialized system that will reduce our choices, be more inefficient, and result in lower quality care like the VA hospitals.
thousands of Canadians come for the care that their government refuses them. and then we hear complaints about how much America spends on healthcare. America cares for not only Americans but the rest of the developed world that was stupid enough to choose government-controlled health systems.
The government denies more claims and is more severe in its rationing than any private insurance, as verified by government statistics. Private insurance and private healthcare is always better than government-controlled insurance and government-controlled care.
Wait a min. You’re telling me that it’s a viable option to MORTAGE your HOUSE, your home where your family lives in order to pay for medical treatments?
That might possibly, maybe be an option for a small business owner who isn’t insured, but what about a person who doesn’t have a home, like a good deal of New York city?
And what if as result of your medical treatment you are no longer able to work? Howre you going to pay off that mortgage then?
Public charity. There is no free lunch.
Rubbish. Even if treatment cost $100K, many could mortgage a home to pay for it. Private charities could organize themselves to help the indigent.
I personally had a Canadian relative ask me to house a Canadian friend who wanted to come to the US for treatment for leukemia. She died before she could get here, and may have been saved if not for the delays in the Canadian system.
Anecdotal? Possibly, but I hear that about 12,500 Canadians come to the US each year for treatment.
That’s NOT the free market. Decouple ins from employment and allow us to buy health ins across state lines and we are a bit closer to a free market.
Then we would have hundreds of insurance choices. More competition would prevent ins cos from charging too much or providing lousy service. But state govts conspire to reduce competition, and create near monopoly situations in each state. Ins cos provide big campaign contributions in thanks.
I have private, non-employer health ins.
Our natural rights, which do not come from govt, but come from our ownership of our own bodies and lives, are to life, liberty and property. The combination of property and liberty are the free market. This means that we have a natural right to a free market in health care. Those who would attempt to prevent us from buying our own health care or insurance from willing sellers are violating our most basic and important rights.
Single payer is socialism. It is dictatorship.
It must be stopped.
How is that any different than an insurance company or HMO? Even at ti’s worst, it’s BETTER than the nothing that the poor uninsured get right now. The thing that people always leave out of this equation is that it sucks to get sick no matter what kind of insurance/money you have, so the best thing is to not get sick at all. Having the ability to see a doctor regularly and not have to worry about where the payment money is going to come from is the first step in that direction.
It doesn’t go to tax-payers actually. A portion does, which is balanced by the medicaid system that all tax-payers pay into. But it usually doesn’t pay the entire bill, a cost the provider absorbs. THIS is what raises the cost of medical care. along with some greed, I’m sure we can all agree. If the government had control over a plan that was more like insurance than Medicaid is that everyone payed into, it would greatly mitigate this cost while providing health care for the currently uninsured.
So this ONE person has a serious problem with the system. Now is that indicative of a flawed system all around? There are questions not answered in this video that could be asked in this situation. The least of which is this: Did he receive regular checkups prior to knowing he had a tumor?
In the US, under current conditions, there is NO WAY that a person could ever afford to get treated or indeed even know if they had a tumor if they don’t have insurance.
I can see the ideal-carmijok1 heath care system. You’re bleeding profusely from the head, after suffering a car accident. Stumbling into an ER, a carmijok1-representative and two security guards hold you back and ask for your insurance card. As you give them the card the attendant runs your credit and insurance info. It reads DENY. Sorry, your head injury isn’t covered. They shove you out the door, and onto the curb, as they laugh, shouting, “We’re here to make a profit, you sucker!” Hahaha!
Carmijok1 continues to clown around with reality. No, you don’t automatically put on a public option. What do you think the word, option, means? Man, you are stupid. And, you don’t read. I can’t debate a moron who makes up lies out of whole cloth. You obviously don’t care about folks. And have adopted the GOP-mantra, I’ve got mine, so screw you. That’s why you clowns are out of office. You can’t govern. You’re incompetence is remarkable. Then again, profit IS your stated motive. In heath care?!
Carmijok1 is spouting slogans, sans-facts. Most employees DON’T have a choice of insurance plans. They are locked into whatever plan their employer provides for them. In many cases this is only one plan. Take it or leave it. You have NO choice. What’s more, at any time, for any reason, this superior US healthcare system you are so proud of, could drop your coverage and consider you “uninsurable” at their whim. Wow. And that’s how the “Free Market” works? Try buying insurance on your own, moron.
carmijok1, you really have to relax. I understand that the Bush govt couldn’t toast a slice of bread, but ‘Every system the govt runs is broke?” What planet are you living on? I mean, in order to make your point, you have to spout incredible BS, so obvious, it undercuts your screed. Fact: There are currently 30-40 million who use the ER for their care, plus tens of millions who are underinsured. The care given to those who have insurance is substandard now. So what’s your point? Do you have one?
Well im 22 and on the last wednesday of july i was diagnosed with a tumor. this was on my free visit to the doctor. I live an hour from this guy!. I went to the same hospital he would have. St Michaels Hospital in Toronto. In one week i was diagnosed, had surgery and walked out of the hospital. no charge!! I love canadian Healthcare Our Private system is there too. Those dr’s are called specialists.
If people go with this STUPID health care system you might have a brain tumor!!
Yeah, and then they are in extreme debt…