Canada's Healthcare Did not help UFC Star

[Nameless]

Actually, we have one of the best healthcare system in the world, it has flaws, sure, but we have something damn good: You break a leg? just go to the hospital, if you're Canadian and can show your card, it's free buddy. In the us how much it is for a broken leg? Last time I looked, it could go as far as 25 000$ depending of the states and a surgery is... well, beyond imagination. With no insurances here, you have the same treatments as anybody. Sure, if you have some special insurances you can go to private clinics and it goes faster, better service etc but bottom line is: without insurances, you can have the adequate treatment to fix your problem, even a very important surgery. When my brother had a cranial trauma and almost died, he had one of the greatest specialist in Canada upon his case, we had no special insurances for that matter. I think it's great.
Our biggest problems is that for some services, the waiting time can be very long, not for every single one of them but for a couple. That's why we don't have THE best but one of the best. I think that a similar system could work damn well in the US, if you could afford to pay more than 700 billions for fake WMD, you can sure afford this. The lobby of private clinics and insurance will be terrible but it could work, most definitely, it would just have to be adapted to your legislation but after a few tweaks it should work just fine. The problem in fact is not the idea to put such healthcare but the way Obama wants to design it that is wrong.

[Youngblood]

Meh I went into the hospital emerg. a while back with a concussion and inside of an hr I was in a Catscan, had seen neurosurgeon and was on my way home all checked out. Now if I was there with the sniffles, or a bent finger I woulda been there longer. Our system caters to everyone, but by priority of risk. Chest pains, head injuries and serious trauma get to the front of the line. Whining giant roided out UFC freaks can take their number like everyone else.

[killersheep]

Brock "The Voice of America" Lesnar

Ug, I am against sweeping healthcare reform in America, as a true liberal the proposed system is too full of holes and will not meet the needs of the common man.

The problem with insurance is that is doesn't follow the laws of supply and demand which means it can be defined as a market failure. I have my insurance at work and it has gone up 1000% since I started working here 6 years ago. The reason for the increase? One guy at my work used it for chemo. Do I think that it would be in a better state as government provided? No I don't, but at the same time something needs to be regulated so that at the very least insurance follows the rules of capitalism. I don't believe tort reform is the be all end all answer it is in fact a very small piece of the pie.