[E. Pluribus Unum]

They are obviously getting a kickback from the ambulance company.

[nothingnew]

"If you've been shot, press 1 now"

If you've been stabbed, press 2 now"

If you've been raped, press 3 now"

"If you are being strangled, press4 now, and then hit the strangler with the phone"

FMCDH

[HEY4QDEMS]

Not my Job Man

[robertpaulsen]

"10 metres"

Is this far? 10 meters is about 30 feet, but is a metre like a cubit? Also, this guy thinks that 30 degrees is hotter than hell. Was he delirious, too? No wonder no one wanted to touch him.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Nothing new here...
I used to live 1.5 hours north of Nanaimo in Campbell River, my brother broke his foot and had to wait 6 hours to get a cast for it, my sister in law had to wait 3 hours for an anesthetist to come across from Quadra Island to give her an epidural while she was delivering my nephew. Campbell River has a CT machine but I had to drive my mother to Nanaimo to have a CT scan done because there was no one around to run the machine in Campbell River. The Doctors in Comox which is 25 miles south of Campbell River mis-diagnosed my grandfathers bone cancer and then he died in agaony months later...

Yes comrades these are the true benefits of a social medicare system (Mao & Stalin give it 2 thumbs up)..

oh yeah and by the way, put your BC medicare card into an ATM at the local bank and withdraw a big fat handful of cash..yes this did happen. Some guy was able to steal money with his government health care card in BC..

Just another reason why I am glad to be living and working in the USA...they can keep that crap up there in Canada.

[MD_Willington_1976]

30 degrees Celcius (86 Fahrenheit, 303 Kelvin,546 rankine) on Vancouver Island is high. The average winter temperature on the Island is around 4 degrees Celcius (39 Fahrenheit, 277 kelvin, 498 rankine). Snow is not too common as it usually rains from Autumn to Spring, it mainly snows on the central peaks of the Island (Mt Washington etc). The north end of the Island is quite wet, the first settlers there left for the south because of the terrible weather, Holberg was a military installation up there and it was part of the "Dew Line". Victoria at the south end of the Island is quite a bit warmer and has a somewhat mediteranean climate with Arbutus trees & various Pine and hardwood trees.

[Houmatt]

Pardon me, but what does this have to do with Canada's health care system? I read the article twice and no reference is made anywhere.

[Conservative til I die]

The medical industry today is horrible. I had an aunt die of an aortic aneuryism at the age of 50 because she sat in the hospital for 7 hours diagnosed with indigestion and given Pepto Bismol. PS - She didn't have insurance. She only got any attention when she was put in an ambulance to go to one of the better hospitals because her friggin' arteries burst. But the ambulance service made sure to charge her *$6,000* Six-thousand!

I have no insurance right now, and am deathly afraid of the health issue I'm having right now turn out to be serious enough for hospitalization. To put it this way, one doctor has told me antibiotics, then blood tests, and then, we'll see. Another told me the first thing I needed was a biopsy right away. Scary isn't it that our lives are in these people's hands?

By no means do I want national healthcare, but we need to find a third way. What was the medical industry like in the 40s and 50s, before HMOs and all that?

[The Energizer]

As Wesley Smith points out in his books, people in the USA have called 9-1-1 from their hospital beds to get necessary medical attention. It's not just Canada.