I have some farmland in Alaska to sell you…
As someone who works as a doctor, the following is all too common.
Now I am not arguing the US system is perfect, no system is. But the US spends as much per capital on socialized medicine as we do! They have socialized medicine down there, Medicare and Medicaid. A single woman with 2 kids making under $30,000 a year is covered by Medicaid.
I have seen the frustration of not being able to get on certain medicine in Canada because its “not covered yet” - but is covered for those in government or working for government, of course.
Then of course we have idiot socialists like Ehrenreich of the LA Times in the US railing as often as they can on the unfairness of the public medical system down there. How there are rooms filled with crap from the last patient, long waiting lists etc.
Once you get past the emergency room, friends assured us, the quality of care at County-USC is quite good. And it was, if you could ignore the previous patient’s bloody bandages left on the base of your gurney, or the towels stained with urine — some wet, some already dry — that covered the floor of the bathroom on the ward. The doctors, when you saw them, were attentive enough. But seeing a doctor was no easy task.
If idiots like that think the same thing doesn’t happen up here, I have some great farmland in Alaska to sell you.
Time for a rethink.
