no1scouse: I could have predicted if there were a problem, it would be in Ontario. They seem determined to prove Tommy Douglas wrong (despite being declared a couple years ago to be the greatest Canadian ever). In six years, we only needed emergency once. We had to wait about ten minutes (it seemed longer because it was an emergency). We went to the Burnaby hospital (closer) even though we lived next to Boundary road in Vancouver and our doctor was in Richmond.
You are the first complaint I have heard from inside the system, although I have heard too many from those who only get their “information” from the AMA. (I had a professor who had just come off sabbatical where he studied the AMA in the ‘50s. His opinion was “the most ruthless and corrupt labor union in the country, Hoffa included.” By the ’70s, every time they made a pronouncement, the YAMA (under 35) would make one saying the opposite. Recently the AMA made some statements advocating the Canadian plan, but the corporate media has not reported anything like that in the last couple years. My Canadian doctor said, in 1973, after BC finally adopted the system, "I can[’t see that I practice medicine any differently now that I no longer worry about being paid."
I was at a co-operative conference when they still had a backlog of people who at last could finally afford medical care, and there were complaints about the wait for elective surgery. They knew I was a US citizen, so I said, “You can always do what we do.” “What?” “If you can’t pay, you die.” Since co-operators have a higher sense of social responsibility than most, there was no further discussion of the matter.
Sarcasm maybe the intent but many times people who suddenly lose that loved one say they miss those annoying things the most. Humor also helps you to more easily cope as well.
no1scouse over 11 years ago
hippogriff: See my reply to your sarcastic comment May 29.
LeoAutodidact over 11 years ago
Clair knows them BOTH so well!
Jolly1995 over 11 years ago
yikes
hippogriff over 11 years ago
no1scouse: I could have predicted if there were a problem, it would be in Ontario. They seem determined to prove Tommy Douglas wrong (despite being declared a couple years ago to be the greatest Canadian ever). In six years, we only needed emergency once. We had to wait about ten minutes (it seemed longer because it was an emergency). We went to the Burnaby hospital (closer) even though we lived next to Boundary road in Vancouver and our doctor was in Richmond.
You are the first complaint I have heard from inside the system, although I have heard too many from those who only get their “information” from the AMA. (I had a professor who had just come off sabbatical where he studied the AMA in the ‘50s. His opinion was “the most ruthless and corrupt labor union in the country, Hoffa included.” By the ’70s, every time they made a pronouncement, the YAMA (under 35) would make one saying the opposite. Recently the AMA made some statements advocating the Canadian plan, but the corporate media has not reported anything like that in the last couple years. My Canadian doctor said, in 1973, after BC finally adopted the system, "I can[’t see that I practice medicine any differently now that I no longer worry about being paid."
I was at a co-operative conference when they still had a backlog of people who at last could finally afford medical care, and there were complaints about the wait for elective surgery. They knew I was a US citizen, so I said, “You can always do what we do.” “What?” “If you can’t pay, you die.” Since co-operators have a higher sense of social responsibility than most, there was no further discussion of the matter.
ldw42 over 11 years ago
Sarcasm maybe the intent but many times people who suddenly lose that loved one say they miss those annoying things the most. Humor also helps you to more easily cope as well.