To: bentway who wrote (206408 ) 10/18/2006 12:26:02 PM From: Ichy Smith Read Replies (1) | Respond to You will note Chris, that I was last in the hospital for any time when they took my tonsils out. I was in grade 4 I think, so Eisenhower was president. I haven't needed the system. But other people need it, and as the cost goes up, a number of services are being deleted. So a few years ago they dropped eye care, for anyone under 65. To have a great system, and watch it slowly collapsing due mostly to waste and poor planning is pretty difficult. I have the option, if I think I need an MRI, I just go across the border and buy one. The poor you talk about cannot do that, and like every other place those are the ones who suffer first. If they cannot find the fee to stay on a doctor's list, they don't have a doctor. If you don't have a family doctor often chronic conditions become worse. I make my once a year appointment, and pay my fee every year, But people with cancer are running fund raisers so they can go to Buffalo for Cancer Treatment, because it isn't available in Canada. Can you imagine dying because the treatment you need isn't available, and it is available 20 miles away, but you cannot afford it? If the US wants free medicare, someone has to evaluate the systems being used and figure out how to deliver good health care for a reasonable price. Making health care a government monopoly is not an answer. It is a government monopoly here, and the Federal government handles the money, and then the provincial government handles the money and then hospitals handle it.
