Where's Kathy Shaidle when you need her? I spent five hours in the emergency waiting room (having been refered there after a previous hour-and-a-half wait at a walk-in clinic. I was at the walk-in clinic because a year later my family still cannot find a family physician, even though we are living in the Canadian city that is the least affected by slow healthcare delivery) with my youngest daughter before we saw a physician! The medical staff were great, so I'm not blaming them for the wait. Nevertheless, that's what happens when you live with a socialized medical system that is understaffed and underfunded.
While there, we hung around with the parents of this eight-year old boy. They are very nice people who have been all over the press after the boy was reportedly and intentionally run down in his own driveway by a cab driver. What the media is not reporting is the ethinic origin of the cab driver, which reportedly appears to to be the same as that area of the world that produced "air rage" on 9-11-01.
Congratulations to the brave souls in Quebec who have fought through the legal system for the right to buy private health insurance -- and may have won, if the province lets the decision stand.
I wonder how many people in Canada can not afford health care as opposed to those in the states.
Also, are we speaking of the same "area of the world" that produced our Lord and Savior or not?
Yes, Pete, but do you know what happens when you go to the emergency room in a country where there is no government help at all with health care? You get a bill afterward that sends you into a debt you'll probably never be able to pay off, especially if you're a poor person in that particular nation.
Surely there is some happy medium between the two different (and failed) systems.