Having lived in a country like you describe, cost still plays part in it. Suddenly, you're on waiting lists. Waiting lists that are years long. And this is regardless of what your doctor says. Need a treatment within the year or you'll suffer the rest of your life? Tough, you can wait 3.
Oh, you can go the private route. But you're still paying the cost of the public option. And both combined? Yeah, far more than what we pay here in the US.
The above isn't made up, it's just a small sample of why I left Canada. I could never subject my children to that horrid system again without feeling as if I was abusing them.
I would have thought that the number of deaths per capita in the US because insufficient funds to pay for healthcare, greatly exceeds the number of deaths per capita in Canada because of waiting times.
And in any case, Canada does not have the only public healthcare system in the world. There are many that do not have such extreme waiting times.
(Of course, this whole discussion is academic, since the US is incapable of implementing any public healthcare system, waiting times or not).
It's illegal to not treat someone who is going to die because they are uninsured. They just get stuck with a massive bill. It's untrue that the US cant implement public healthcare... They have had it for years in the form of Medicare.
1. Who was talking about deaths? Sorry, but healthcare is more than just life and death. That being said, your post screams ignorance of universal healthcare.
Oh, you can go the private route. But you're still paying the cost of the public option. And both combined? Yeah, far more than what we pay here in the US.
The above isn't made up, it's just a small sample of why I left Canada. I could never subject my children to that horrid system again without feeling as if I was abusing them.