Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

[Aegon]

You should make one that says: Sorry Mom, when the government pays for health care it gets rationed, and  there wasn't enough for you:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countri...ealth-care

When Sharon Shamblaw was diagnosed last summer with a form of blood cancer that could only be treated with a particular stem cell transplant, the search for a donor began. A Toronto hospital, 100 miles east of her home in St. Mary's, Ontario, and one of three facilities in the province that could provide the life-saving treatment, had an eight-month waiting list for transplants.

Four months after her diagnosis, Shamblaw headed to Buffalo, New York, for treatment. But it was too late. She died at the age of 46, leaving behind a husband and three children, as detailed by the Toronto Star.

Tens of thousands of Canadians seek helath care - at their own expense - outside the country each year:

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/numb...tudy-finds

In 2014, 52,513 Canadians travelled beyond our borders to seek medical treatment, compared with 41,838 in 2013. The numbers suggest that the Canadian health care system could not comply with the needs and demands of a substantial number of Canadian patients, according to the study.

So guess what...Canada, or any country with "universal" health care, actually has a two-tiered system. The poor sit on waiting lists to get mediocre service. Those with money just go somewhere else. If the US adopts such a system (which I don't actually oppose), the same would happen.

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Timmy: I have 13 tickets, now. Is that enough?
 Man behind the counter: Oh, sorry Timmy, but you need 15 tickets to live.

Yep, good example of Canadian health care.

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A-M loves the republicunt health care plan.  That is, "if you're rich enough to go to a doctor you can.  Otherwise, fucking die you poor piece of trash."  No one will ever confuse you with a humanitarian, A-M.

As opposed to the Democunt health care plan, which is: "if you're rich enough to go to a doctor you can.  Otherwise, fucking die you poor piece of trash."

Or the Canadian: "if you live long enough for your turn to come up, you can go to a doctor. Otherwise, die if you're poor, go to America if you can afford it."

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Lol. TIL that all health insurance plans are equal, I guess. I'll tell you right now that if it weren't for Medicare Part B I wouldn't have been able to afford dialysis treatments or a kidney transplant. Good ol Nixon gave kidney patients socialism in the 70s. Other people aren't so lucky.

I don't oppose Medicare.

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Nobody, including you, should be allowed to dictate who lives and who dies by acting like certain people deserve access to health care and others don't.

But that's exactly what happens with universal health care. The government decides what resources to devote to healthcare, that amount isn't enough, and people die on waiting lists.

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Of course, the difference is that gun rights advocates aren't saying that everyone has a right to a gun from the government.

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What happens to everyone who's not so lucky to have a job that pays for health insurance?

Why is everything luck with you guys? Never heard of cause and effect?

Important to note that single payer is not the only universal health care system