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The stuff I've heard about the situation in Canada is a big part of what makes me dubious of a fully government-run health system.
And the stuff I've heard about the shithole of an American Health System makes me damn fucking certain I would never want to live under a privately run health care system.
Everything bad you've heard about the Canadian system is because there are elements of Canadian politics who hate it with a passion. When these elements get elected they do everything in their power to dismantle our health care system, usually by cutting the funds of it as much as possible. They then use the backups and shortages caused by the massive cuts they themselves have implemented to argue that our system is broken.
Fuck them. Fuck them and let them die.
Healthcare is a basic fucking right of humanity. It is up there with police forces, firefighters and other emergency services.
Quote:Yes, of course. How dare these people make the mistake of being born poor and then getting sick or injured. Fuck them for thinking that they deserve health care. If they had deserved health care they would have been born in the suburbs.
That, and I don't feel I should be required to pay for fixing other people's bad choices. And these days it seems like there's a lot of health care money spent on fixing bad choices...
My roommate suffers from persistent anemia. She has had to go to the hospital five times in the last two months. If we had been in the American system she would be bankrupt right now. No fucking health insurance company would voluntarily cover her, considering her past history of this condition. Thanks to our free universal health care my roommate is ALIVE at this time. So anybody who thinks that health care should not be available to everyone regardless of income can kindly go fuck themselves to death.
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