Comments on: Affordable, comprehensive health care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/08/affordable-comprehensive-health-care.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jen http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/08/affordable-comprehensive-health-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-87055 Jen Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/08/affordable-comprehensive-health-care.html#comment-87055 Well, affordable, comprehensive health care is working out pretty well for my Canadian family. At the moment I don't have a primary care doctor as we've moved to a new community, but my autistic triplets (one of them is a cancer survivor) all had pediatricians within 24 hours of our first ER visit here. I'm presently seeing an ob/gyn (referred by our local ER) for cervical problems, who I started seeing 3 days after I was first diagnosed with a problem.<br/><br/>My kids were born 10 weeks prematurely, and all of the NICU and follow-up care was paid for by my taxes, not to mention my pregnancy care, the treatments for their autism and my one daughter's cancer (she was in a pediatric oncology ward in a different city within 4 hours of the first scary ultrasound, by the way, and had surgery as soon as she was stable enough). <br/><br/>It's pretty horrendous to pay taxes that are about the same as my American husband's (minus the extra $450/month he's paying for his own health insurance right now), and have that many hospital visits, NICU, ICU, oncology, and ER stays covered. Yep, it is impossible. <br/><br/>Oh, but we do have to wait for hip replacements...no question about that. Well, affordable, comprehensive health care is working out pretty well for my Canadian family. At the moment I don’t have a primary care doctor as we’ve moved to a new community, but my autistic triplets (one of them is a cancer survivor) all had pediatricians within 24 hours of our first ER visit here. I’m presently seeing an ob/gyn (referred by our local ER) for cervical problems, who I started seeing 3 days after I was first diagnosed with a problem.

My kids were born 10 weeks prematurely, and all of the NICU and follow-up care was paid for by my taxes, not to mention my pregnancy care, the treatments for their autism and my one daughter’s cancer (she was in a pediatric oncology ward in a different city within 4 hours of the first scary ultrasound, by the way, and had surgery as soon as she was stable enough).

It’s pretty horrendous to pay taxes that are about the same as my American husband’s (minus the extra $450/month he’s paying for his own health insurance right now), and have that many hospital visits, NICU, ICU, oncology, and ER stays covered. Yep, it is impossible.

Oh, but we do have to wait for hip replacements…no question about that.

]]> By: shadowfax http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/08/affordable-comprehensive-health-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-87051 shadowfax Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/08/affordable-comprehensive-health-care.html#comment-87051 Oh, come on. Every single other industrialized country has it. Every damn one. Some good, some not so great. But to say flat-out it's "impossible," is puerile and defeatist. Oh, come on. Every single other industrialized country has it. Every damn one. Some good, some not so great. But to say flat-out it’s “impossible,” is puerile and defeatist.

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