Hello from Canada. Under our "terrible" medical system, in the last 4 years my 75 year old mother has had a gallbladder removed, a pacemaker installed, quality care during infrequent visits to a busy emergency room at a clean well staffed city hospital. Wait times negligible. Expenses ($0.00) other than her $50.00 monthly medical fee. Care is here when you need it.
I have a close friend, a surgeon with a Ph.D. in internal medicine who works in a Danish hospital. She and her husband, a radiologist, could make much more money working in North America. I asked them why they won't consider moving here. They refuse to even consider working in a system where corporate profit and executive compensation is more more important than universal access to good health care.
Efficiency is important, but greed just "gums up the works".
My sympathies are with the American public who are fed such nasty and clearly misleading propoganda about properly managed state run care. If the government must run a military system properly, then they should be able to run a medical system as well. Americans are smart people and I expect a few of them could be hired by your government to work for you.
Lastly, I am puzzled how the people who orchestrate this campaign of deliberate misinformation sleep well at night. How can the money they pocket justify the misery and stress they are causing their fellow citizens?
I have a close friend, a surgeon with a Ph.D. in internal medicine who works in a Danish hospital. She and her husband, a radiologist, could make much more money working in North America. I asked them why they won't consider moving here. They refuse to even consider working in a system where corporate profit and executive compensation is more more important than universal access to good health care.
Efficiency is important, but greed just "gums up the works".
My sympathies are with the American public who are fed such nasty and clearly misleading propoganda about properly managed state run care. If the government must run a military system properly, then they should be able to run a medical system as well. Americans are smart people and I expect a few of them could be hired by your government to work for you.
Lastly, I am puzzled how the people who orchestrate this campaign of deliberate misinformation sleep well at night. How can the money they pocket justify the misery and stress they are causing their fellow citizens?
