It is charity season .

My favorite charities are the Salvation Army, a few local ones and our local humane society. The national humane society and SPCA’s don’t give a dime to the local ones. They spend their money on commercials and big salaries. I was shocked when I volunteered and realized that they kept all the money. I also help people locally that I hear about.
 

jimintoronto said:
I live in the largest city in Canada, Toronto. If somebody lives in Timmins 600 miles north of Toronto, their experience will be different. I will compare it to an American who lives in NYC, to another American who lives in rural Montana, in terms of how good their medical care is.

I will also point out that in Canada, you cannot "Pay your way to the front of the line ". Decisions are made between the patient and their Doctor, based on the nature of the medical situation and the severity of it. I spent ten years working for the largest Ambulance service in Canada, here in Toronto, so I know how the triage system works. In simple terms, in an emergency the worst go first, the least go last. Changes in medical conditions will result in the status of the patient being upgraded accordingly.

Is our system 100 percent marvelous ? No it isn't perfect, but it is a lot better than the mess that Americans have to deal with daily. Do a Goggle about " what is the leading cause of personal bankruptcies in the USA ? " You will find the most common cause is medical debts of all kinds. Canadians don't have that kind of worry hanging over their heads. JimB.
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Frankly, I'm betting every single solitary American is sitting here utterly horrified at the lack of health care in the country. My mother (my English side; my father's the French one with the French-Canadian mother) comes from a long line of dairy farmers that have been here since the 1600s in a rural commuity in upstate New York - with an excellent hospital.

It's rather horrifying that you have an those hicks deserve to wait and wait and wait attitude. Wth? That's a very strange bigotry and a very poor reflection on your health care system that it only caters to those in the cities. Ours serves both and, no, you do not need money to get health care in America. That's simply not true. The very poor here do get all their health care for free.
 
jimintoronto said:
You need to ask the Canadians who are members of SF this question ? Are you satisfied with the Canadian health care system, or would you like to change to the US mess ? Have you ever lived IN Canada? I didn't think so. JimB.
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I think @Blaze Duskdreamer 's point is that government isn't good at running businesses.

I'm not sure what US mess you're talking about, but the US gov't has indeed made a horrible mess of the *business* of medicine, firstly by making it a business, and secondly, cutting costs by replacing doctors who hold a PhD with medical professionals who don't.

It would have been wiser (imo) to subsidize private practices than to give subsidies to insurance companies so they could build, own, and run huge medical clinics. Americans complain that treatment at these clinics is substandard, and compared to treatment at a private practice, that's absolutely true.
 
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