I'm tired.

[Hocrest]

Originally Posted by Landshark

ask Canada how well that's working out.

wait over a year for a hip replacement? overflowing emergency rooms?

Sounds just like our system, but ours has the added benefit of crippling bills and bankruptcy.

Our current system is not right, and the proposed Obamacare is not right, but to argue that we shouldn't work to fix what we have because Canada is broken is not right either.

[dcarrb]

I claim no data nor do I know any Canadians, but do have a sneaking suspicion that for every horror story about healthcare in Canada there are probably 100 Canadians who would have it no other way. (Pretty much the same with doctors and hospitals here, isn't it?) So maybe you can get a hip replacement in this country lickety-split if you're well-insured or wealthy. But if you've lost your major medical because you got laid off, or due to a pre-existing condition, good luck to you.

I don't have any answers, but I do know that most of us who consider ourselves among the middle class in this country aren't as many paydays removed from bread lines and free clinics as we'd like to believe.

dcb