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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Well, what that you have wanted do you know would not be available to you in Canada or GB? If your health plan covered everything, they wouldn't have to have those pesky little booklets that set out what they do and don't cover, with long-ass definitions of weird things.
Silly boy.
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I wouldn't do this for anyone else. Several months ago I already posted what I will now post.
Coming out of law school I interviewed in Toronto. It was the basis for my Juan the marine's best work on Greedy Canada, but I digress. I thought Toronto would be a wonderful place to live. Problem is I would have to live an hour outside because it was too expensive. When I said to the interviewing Partner "at least I won't have health care costs," he said anyone who can afford it pays extra to go to private.
Since then I've heard that private medical has been banned(or something). Still we hear all kinds of anecdotes about Canadians coming here for procedures that would attract an overly long wait under Canadian Health.
I have many Canadian clients. One has only 1 leg. He has this rant about waiting to see a Docter about this lump on his leg. by the time his appointment came up (7 or 8 months) his leg was too far gone and needed to be chopped off.
I grew up lower middle class. We always had prompt access to docs and we never had to forego treatments. If you want to talk about expanding a safety net okay- don't fuck with a system that takes really good care of the majority of the country though.
