Here's a 10-minute video every U.S. citizen should see. Especially the ones who either don't understand Canada's health-care model or have been defaming it.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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3 comments:
Do "real" Canadians ever get really pissed off when my unreal fellow Americans run down their healthcare system? Do Canadians take it personally? Or are they happy to watch us stew in our own stupidity?
I'd say what really gets our goat is hearing/reading lies that imply great defects in moral character. When that Missouri congressman said he could never get hip replacement surgery in Canada because he's too old (at 59), that amounted to saying Canadians neglect their old and let them suffer. We're not the ones turning away from people in need of health care; that would be the U.S. residents who, for whatever reason, think it's OK to let their neighbours go without.
This is a fabulous post, Stimpson, and I will refer many of my American friends directly to this. I SO admire your system, and that Canadian common sense and fairness attitude! It is a far more civilized lifestyle than the "I've got mine, to hell with you" attitude so prevalent in so many Americans' minds.
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