Re: Global Warming - a Liberal Scam?, (was Huge study about safetycanbe misinterpreted by SUV drivers)

"Daniel J. Stern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Bill Putney wrote:
>
> > Canada's healthcare system sucks.
>
> I daresay you don't know what you're talking about. I'm an American living
> here in Canada, and guess what? Canada's healthcare system is *vastly*
> better than the US system in the vast majority of cases. Are there
> exceptions? Surely. There's no such thing as perfection. But the Canadian
> system does a much better job of handling most of the healthcare needs of
> most of the people at a reasonable cost.
>
> DS

I had exposure to both the UKs socialized medicine and Canadian health
care....run away! A Brit friend was visiting our offices in the States and
took a run up to Toronto to see the Company's Canadian operations. While
there she got the unmistakable signs of appendicitis. The Canadians basicaly
forced her onto a plane to get her over the border to the USA, telling her
she wanted NOTHING to do with the Canadian health care system. EMS met her
at the airport, rushed her to the hospital where she had an emergency
appendectomy within minutes of arrival. She then convalesced for four days
"in hospital", as the Brits would say.

She claimed she'd never received better care, that in the UK she'd have
likely ruptured before they got around to treating her, which might have
been days later. The only way to get health care "on demand" there would  be
to have either deep pockets, or as most folks do, private health insurance.

I could go on, but before you think having the Govt. run health care would
be better than what we have, think again. Yeah, our system sucks, but not as
much as the others suck!