And when Obama drives private healthcare out of business were will Canadians go to for cancer treatment? Why would any employer provide private insurance to their employers if the govt will give it to them at taxpayers expense? USE COMMON SENSE
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Canada.
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Do you have a government run healthcare I am guessing NO nuff said
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Private healthcare is so superior yet you think it will be driven out of business? Hope your HMO covers paranoia.
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Mexico.
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No, but but a lot of mothers can't even afford cancer treatment under our current system. My HMO denied my mammograms for years despite a heavy family history of breast cancer. HMO's are not the solution, they are a failure, and we need a nationalized option.
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No. My mom stayed in Canada for her cancer treatment.
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Canadians come here for ELECTIVE surgeries, do the research dude. It would be more accurate to ask ... "Do you want your mom or grandmother to wait 8 months for their boob jobs?"
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Typical republican straw man argument without any facts to back it up.
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Canada? Hmm...glad you brought them up. Canada has some of the highest cancer survival rates in the world. The US does pretty good in survivor rates too, but I'd trade our system for Canada's in a heart beat.
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Eight months???? Honey, try 5 YEARS!!!!!!! Thanks, Hillary!
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No country with universal healthcare makes emergency cases wait 8 months for treatment. And even so - that would still be better than not getting it at all. As for Canadians - Americans contribute a lot to international medical tourism too - the arguments we export medical treatment while ignoring the fact we import it also are clearly intended to be misleading. As for your last argument - it is not common sense nor real world finding that employers will stop providing insurance. Employers are under no obligation to provide insurance now. Yet they do for a lot of employees. They do this to attract good employees. If a government system is going to be as bad as you pretend (ignoring the fact that every other developed country has a government provided option and everyone of them produces better health statistics than the US) then employers will still have to offer alternatives to attract talent. Most developed countries have hybrid public/private systems. To argue such a system cannot work is to put yourself at odds with reality.
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I live in CA where every f-ing government spending program is sacrosanct. I personally do not want healthcare to be another albatross around my neck when we need to balance the budget. To those single-payer advocates: Would you want public healthcare if it meant bankruptcy?
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Wait to watch the commercials and be gullible enough to believe what they say is the norm. It is true that Canada has some long wait times for certain procedures but that is more due to a shortage of physicians in certain specialties because some incompetent politicians cut funding for Canadian medical schools in the early 1990's. The health care system in Canada is far more efficient than some republicans would have you believe.
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Not if it was required. Cancer generally needs immediate and aggressive treatment
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I work in the healthcare system in the UK. A patient was seen last week, diagnosed with suspected cancer, seen by a specialist for confirmation within two days and this week they are being seen for radiotherapy. An eight month wait? I do not think so. First of all, too many people do not know that Obama is not going to bring in universal healthcare. He wants to make insurance more available to all. Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well. FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet. FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage. That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.
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