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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I didn't see that.

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Originally posted by Spanky
I don't know anything about the Canadian health care system, but I have participated in the British, French, Italian and Japanese Health care systems and they all sucked. I was a student in London, with not a lot of money, but after a few runs with the "NHS" I chose to pay for private health care because their system was almost medieval.

I spent Christmas day 2000 in the South Surrey Medical center, and I think most crack houses in the United States could provide a more sterile environment. I had to remind a nurse to sterilize a thermometer when she tried to put in my mouth. She took another patient's tempature and then tried to stick the same thermometer in mine without so much as wiping it off. Once I pointed this out to her she dipped it in some Alcohol and insisted she be allowed to stick in my mouth. I was tempted to cram it into another orifice of hers.

Even private Japanese hospitals don't shine a candle to ours. Our system may not be perfect, but it is by far the best in the western world, so we shouldn't even think about trying imitate anyone else’s. Universal health care would be nice, but if it means becoming more like any of these other systems, that would be a huge mistake.

First RT post:

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I was also a poor student in the UK under NHS. I got great, great care on three occassions. Never a line, never a wait, and the scar over my right eyebrow from an unfortunate rugby accident is practically invisible. You would have thought the guy who put the stitches in (after a two minute wait in the office instead of a four hour wait in an ER, I literally walked into the office about ten minutes after the accident covered in blood and dripping) was a plastic surgeon rather than a GP.

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
God fucking damnit. This is what I'm talking about. Every.Fucking.Single.Time. Universal Healthcare is mentioned, the horror stories from all over the world that have absolutely no bearing at all on the United States come out.

Start giving your Medicare horror stories and then I'll start listening to your moaning and groaning. Even better, start giving me your VA horror stories (and believe me, there are plenty), and I'll give a listen. And then I'll point out that because of the VA's electronic health records, it has some of the best care you can get anywhere. (see also the peer reviewed articles).

And people in the UK are healthier than people in the US, even taking socioeconomic status into account.

To be fair it seems she was responding to different sections of my post, but she did post twice in response to the same post. However, unlike you, I don't see that as a sign of a lack of calmness.