My daughter-in-law is from Canada. She has told my wife and I repeatedly that socialized medicine is a nightmare. At Christmas time her mother and step-father(American born) came for a visit. At one point after dinner “Heather’’ proclaimed her love of her ‘’wonderful free Canadian health-care system’’.(much to the consternation of her daughter) I asked, “Well, everything has to be paid for. How do you pay for this ‘’free’’ health care’’? Without waiting for her to answer my daughter-in-law said “In high taxes, that’s how’’. With that her mothers glowing assessment of Canadas health-care system dropped a bit. I then asked Heather, “Can you change providers’’? This was met with a puzzled look on Heathers face until her daughter(Pam) said’’ He means can you change from the people providing the health-care’’. “No’’, said Heather. ‘’Unless you want to go to the private clinic’’(that means if you have enough money to do so.) And finally I asked, “And when your husband needed (open-heart) surgery he...’’ “Came here’’, chimed in my daughter-in-law. Needless to say the conversation moved on from the subject of ‘’free Canadian health-care’’.
Hate to break it to you. But “socialized” health care
may be a nightmare for someone who has a decent private insurance. (bevore you get me wrong i have a private one and enjoy the benfits from having this “and i live in a country which has so called “socialized health care”).
But for someone who may could not afford any kind of
generall healthh care at all it´s definitelly an improvement.
The difference here is if you work you will have an insurance
no matter what you finally earn. But fact is you and your kids (especially the kids “they are the only ones
“we” would really protect and where we would really use tax money
to help them if their parrents turn out as total losers.
But for the rest. You may have a low job but you can be shure that you are able to get any kind of pills or medicine
available and given to you if it´s nessersary “for free” if you can´t afford it with your pay check. Do you will get the same treatment like me? (Well just no! i get “better” treatment because i pay more. Fair? NO! but this is how live is. So socialized medicine does not mean we all pay the same or even share the same system or more important are treatened equal? (because believe me it´s not this way).
But at least it ensuhres that every one has some kind of acess (even it´s not serious) to a fair share of medical treatment.