What Sicko conveniently left out:
In Canada, McCreith’s story reflects a debate, intensified by the long waiting times, between those who want more for-profit, private care and those who fear the rise of two-tier medicine that undermines the public system.McCreith offers little doubt about where he stands. “We have universal health coverage,” he said. “But it failed me when I needed it the most.”
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Is non-universal health care worth leaving 50 year-old men with unrepaired cleft palates because they can’t afford the elective surgery? Is it worth bake-sales to care for the elective cancer care of children or young adults?
Americans without insurance don’t just have long waits, they have permanent ones until they are near death.
Our hospital alone gives out 15 million dollars of charity care per year to uninsured/underinsured patients.
No one is really just left to rot with serious illness, come on now. They either get official public assistance or non-official public assistance (because someone’s paying for it when it’s not you) with respect to free care at non-profit hospitals (which has to be done to maintain one’s non-profit status as far as I’m aware).
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