We do pay more for taxes because of our health care system but it is still one of the best in the world and worth the extra taxes expecially for the middle and lower classes which more and more people are falling into all the time now. I have had a lot of first hand experiance with the system. We had a daughter born with a rare disease, no muscle tone and a deformed brain. She stayed at the level of a 3 month old mentally and physcially. She spent much time staying in one of the best hospitals, Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario, seen the best doctors in the field. Spent many a week in the local hospital because of the problems lack of muscle caused like pneumonia from swallowing. Came to a point where she needed a feeding tube in her stomach, machine to pump the formula. Had to have oxygen tanks in the house. Had to have a nurse come to home everyday to check on daughter. Had a helper come in for 8 hours a day to help wife with daughters care so wife could care for our other childern. Daughter finally came to the point where she had to stay in hospital for the last 6 months of her life. She died when she was 5 and a half years old. Now I wonder what the real costs of over 5 years of seeing these doctors, hospital stays, special equipment, home nurse and helper, surgeries, everything it took to give her the best possiable life. $500,000.00, $1,000,000.00??? I don't care I just know my daughter got the best care and best quality of life she could have. I never lost my house and never ended up in debt with bills I could never ever pay. To me that bit of extra taxes is well worth it. Is the same for any child born with them problems and parents are not rich. I gladly pay the extra taxes and don't really think about it. Now my question is in the USA if this situation happened to somebody uninsured what would happen. Would the child be in the best hospitals? see the best doctors? get the best care? family get help in home? have all the equipment needed? Or would the family just get tossed scraps and let the child die? Or for that matter even if insured would the HMO cut the family off after a couple of hundred thousand? Would family have lost house and been in debt rest of their lifes? I think yes would be the answer to any of them questions. Canada does have flaws in the health field but if emergancy you get looked after. If life and death you get looked after. Like somebody else said might need to wait for a knee or hip replacement if not an emergancy. Now anybody who has not seen Mike Moore movie Sicko needs to see it. You might hate him but he did make many good points in that movie if you beleive it or not. I usually don't post much but this is one topic I have had a lot of experiace in and also know people in the USA that have about lost everything because of a sudden illness and do know what happens. I hope this answers you questions and for any Canadians that have never been sick and complain about taxes wait till you do end up in a life and death situation. When you are alive after it all and still have a home to go to you will think twice about compaining about taxes again.
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