boosterjuice said:
Let's hear your opinion on what should be done with health care then.
Oh, I have many ideas that I don't have time to go into right now, but I would like to say two things:
First, in my experience, our health care system isn't nearly as bad as conservative propaganda would have people believe. This is coming with someone who has direct experience with many aspects of health care via a couple of elderly relatives with many health problems, and who over the past few years have required regular family md and specialist visits, medical tests, and other procedures. The wait times haven't been unduly long, and they've received the care and treatment they've needed. They've also received excellent in-hospital care. So, are there some minor problems and is there some fine-tuning needed? Certainly. But not the complete overhaul that conservatives and the wealthy would have you believe.
Second, privatized health care is just fundamentally wrong, and not at all what our country (or at least
my country) is based upon. Why should the spoiled wealthy step ahead of the unwashed masses, when it comes to an appointment, a test, or a procedure? Why should a single mother in a minimum wage job worry and watch her ill child suffer, while someone with dollars to flash around has peace of mind that their child is being cared for? The two-tiered system you imagine will not work. At best, it will result in much lower quality care for those who can't afford the top tier. At worst, it will lead to complete privatization. It certainly won't lead to the utopian scenario you've described.
It's really easy to sit in a comfortable financial postion and dictate that you are owed a more exclusive healthcare system than those less fortunate. Me and many other Canadians? We have empathy for others, and find it morally repugnant that someone with money could potentially have better care than citizens who are less well off.