Canadians ASTONISHED At How EVIL US Healthcare Is | The Kyle Kulinski Show

[@SuzkoSuge]

It's not the Brits and Canadians who are mocking you. It's the rich of your own country.

[@paulkielty3800]

Spot on,👍

[@NotEmiliaNatsuki]

Nah, most of the wealthier people here have the "homeless people need to get a job and buy a house" mentality.

[@jw6337]

​@subaru4920 "just stop being poor while I do everything in my power to make sure you stay poor"

[@vrado441]

Canadian Health "care" is second worst in Western world!

[@danpowell3953]

@@vrado441Yet still better than than the US.

[@Revanel238]

"So if youre poor youre dead". A harsh reality we Americans live with every day.

[@AaronMartin-u8n]

Keep voting for the Democrats like Kyle tells you to do every four years

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

In Europe, if a homeless person is ill or injured then they get to stay in a hospital and receive treatments for free, as it should be

[@bbo7002]

​@@MostlyLoveOfMusicthat sounds like a dream to me as a lifelong US citizen 😅 I can't even imagine that. Some folks might help a person they happened to meet them while having a health crisis, and if they brought that person to a hospital the staff would probably be required to help them.......but idk how long the person could stay in the hospital if they only "sort of" needed to, or how that person would be billed/in debt tbh....😒

[@desertrat4532]

Unless you are white. Then you have miracles in reserve. Free Luigi.

[@OrthoGothChristian]

Actually, if you’re poor, you’re good. It’s called charity care. The only time it sux, is if you own property and have to declare bankruptcy. Welcome to America.

[@grantjohnston7148]

Charging $40 to the mother for holding her new born is really disgusting and kinda creepy 😳

[@sinisterkitty8411]

I knooowwww. We have really outdone ourselves there. Do we really want a world where holding your baby costs money?!!!

[@starproxy_exe]

Nobody wants to live in that world!

[@mikef8846]

They only charge $20 if you'll let someone stand in the corner and masturbate while watching.

[@merlebarney]

As a Canadian I find that fucking nuts!

[@hardystein114]

@grantjohnston7148 Yes , that simply defies words . US " healthcare " is about as fucked up as it can be . On that basis alone , it`s already hell on earth.

[@RosemaryPickett-h9l]

Canadian citizen here. My husband just spent 3 days in the hospital after a visit to the ER for a severe infection. He had blood work, CT scan and IV antibiotics for 3 days. The only thing we paid for was parking when I visited him. Bottom line, he was having an emergency and got treatment immediately.

[@kroxxy123]

US citizen. Last year, my husband collapsed and hit the back of his head at a restaurant. It was a small gash that, all in reality, didn't need medical attention, but after seeing a puddle of blood, I wasn't thinking clearly. I made the mistake of asking for a medical team. They came right away, spent about 10 minutes checking his vitals, and wrapped his head with about $5 worth of gauze, and when everything seemed to be ok, left. We didn't leave the restaurant, no ambulance ride, was never seen by a doctor, $775 later. For gauze and 10 minutes of their time. Our insurance covered jack shit. Care to guess who our carrier is?

[@jesseredden7123]

As a Canadian I find it a bit wrong that we have to pay for parking while visiting sick family or friends. Hopefully the money made goes back to the hospital.

[@bonniekerr4964]

@@kroxxy123 wow. I’m a paramedic (Oklahoma), and if we don’t transport the patient doesn’t get charged, because there is no code for billing. I know it varies from state to state to state. I’m sorry it cost you so much, but I have to say you did do the right thing. A head injury can go either way. If there is an intracranial bleed you wouldn’t know.

[@ambushpredator7629]

@@kroxxy123 😢 I am a U.S citizen/ landed Immigrant living in Canada just over 24 years after leaving the U.S Army and I enjoy the Health Care For All system vs the USA's death care system for all. It's amazing how Americas are not out in the streets protesting against this injustice.

[@rickster_88]

​@jesseredden7123 most hospitals I Canada lease their parking lot to 3rd party companies who charge way too much for parking. If you have time YT CBC Market Place Hospital Parking. They did a story about it.

[@JBLegal09]

If you think Canadians and Brits feel sorry for you in the US, try interviewing Australians. We have official warnings not to go to the US without health coverage in place.

[@christines5430]

Brit here. I never visit the US for holidays without double checking that the coverage limits on my travel insurance are extremely high.

[@JBLegal09]

​@@christines5430it's crazy over there isn't it 😢

[@thehellyousay]

same thing exists here in canada, along with the fact that there are travel advisories, cautions, and there have even been travel warnings about american policing, violent crime, and general gun violence.

[@luodeligesi7238]

To be fair, Americans need travel insurance when we go anywhere else too because other countries' universal systems don't cover tourists, and no way our American plans will even think of covering anything outside of the US.

[@Jim-n5y]

I spent 4 days in NYC with my son in September on a baseball extended weekend.At 66 I made sure I had traveller's health insurance.At my age if I was to travel anywhere now I'd always carry health insurance.

[@tiagojordao4105]

I was appalled when people in the US protested against covid masks but not for free health care.

[@camiller4916]

Just the idiots protested, there were also protests in other countries, so stupidity isn’t just limited to the US

[@judyweeks1480]

@@camiller4916 Maybe so, but I believe that no other country in the world has the same amount of people going bankrupt over medical care as the U.S. does.

[@WilliamKiene]

Free healthcare cannot work because no one is going 12 years to medical school to work for $100,000 a year.

[@TTM9691]

@@camiller4916 Yeah, just the idiots protested......which was literally half the country!

[@PudubatPudubat]

​@@camiller4916yeah you didn't get acknowledged of the 500 pages of the report who destroyed the COVID narrative 🤡🤡🤡 telling people's they are stupid when you felt for it 😂

[@mk.........]

What surprises me the most as an European is that Americans still pay taxes. For what you pay in, you actually get next to nothing in return. It looks more like you are paying a kind of membership fee just to be there.

[@Skateandcreate9]

Because everyone are cucked

[@platoniczombie]

Most of us don't have an option... taxes get automatically deducted before the check gets to us.

[@brobeans717]

Well to be fair so much of our money goes to...well everyone but the American people.

[@Jur1986]

I don't understand... I'm a European too and I pay taxes. We all 0ay taxes. Can you explain?

[@SantanicoDiabolical]

​@@Jur1986you're not very bright... that is is saying that for what Americans pay in taxes, we don't get our money's worth. Basically robbery. Is that clear?

[@sharmilarhameed1119]

I am Canadian, I am so sad for my US neighbours, it breaks my heart. I had reoccurring kidney failure, stage 3 difficult to treat breast cancer. Modern medicine, the wonderful health care workers and healthcare system (that’s not perfect) but has saved my life. Everything done in the hospital is free. My medications were free after joining a government set up program. It is completely overwhelming thinking of what my bill would have been.

[@icebergrose8955]

It's the same in New Zealand. I had surgery three weeks ago. All I paid was parking. I don't know how Americans do it. Working your whole life, you get sick and lose your house? That's soul crushing.

[@carolmcintosh5066]

It is decidedly not "free." We pay premiums with our taxes. It is accurate to say users are not billed directly. We have a single payer system, which is the government, funded by our premiums.

[@AllMyDreamsAreLucid]

My dad had Kidney cancer a few months ago. We are so lucky to have such great healthcare system

[@sythiadawn]

​@@carolmcintosh5066 I guess you're sooooo rich you can afford to pay out of pocket? Why else whine about taxes? Everyone pays taxes. Even those poor fools in the states. At least we get ours back in healthcare.

[@mellie9633]

I live in Ottawa, I'm glad you are doing well. Yes our healthcare system needs work but the alternative is awful...poor Americans quite literally in this case.

[@sgoz85]

Australian here. This is absolutely sickening. Is the USA in the 3rd world?

[@Semperstrong]

Yes.

[@mhxybeats653]

a lot of developing countries actually have a better system than us. it's that bad

[@MikeG77701]

@@mhxybeats653😂😂😂😂

[@amandafielding4451]

Shocking isn't it, and about to get so much worse when Trump guts Obama Care. If anybody thinks he's got a replacement plan, I don't believe it for one minute. And the rolling back environmental protections so that EVEN more people will get sick and need healthcare. It astounds me that in this modern day USA looks after their people pretty much the same as North Korea does, and the majority of Americans voted AGAINST Kamala because god forbid you elect somebody who actually wants to help the average citizen.

[@oliviasukamto947]

But T and Fox News say the us is the best country in the world ?

[@bandelay2134]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) did a poll of millions of Canadians in 2004 and asked: Who is the greatest Canadian ever? The Canadian people chose Tommy Douglas - the Saskatchewan premier who brought Universal Healthcare to the entire country.

[@allatonce3143]

Defund CBC

[@missindependent1973]

and at the time, so many were outraged, saying Socialism, etc. Funny how that works cause we are all thankful for the healthcare

[@johnl9977]

Our problem is Republicans. Every single one, from top to bottom has been bought and paid for by the obscenely wealthy of this country. Americans cheer Elon Musk for buying trump the presidency for $250 million. Only in America is that possible, and that is only because of our universally corrupt Supreme Court, which also, was put in by billionaires.

[@user-fr4ri3mk8b]

@@allatonce3143 You should move to the USA.

[@michaelschroeder47]

@@allatonce3143 Absolutely not.

[@darcybhaiwala7057]

Canadian here. Our system is not great, but it keeps us alive

[@sandramilligan8960]

Same in the UK , its not a perfect system but prefer it to the American model!

[@PrincessofKeys]

At least its something that benefits all an everyone have a chance at it. I rather have yours and the UK's over what we have in the US now.

[@donaldspaulding6973]

It keeps you alive without bankrupting you. That's the biggest difference.

[@byronwilliams7977]

Our system isn't perfect, it needs to improve. Always strive for better.

[@elid401]

American here suffering with back pain for 7 years at 27 similar to Luigi’s case

[@johnh2052]

As a Canadian, I would never live in the USA. My dad has, and I've seen how the health insurance system treated him, and those close to him. It was obscene. Basically, you need a health _care_ system, but you have a health _insurance_ system.

[@nijadbahnam9859]

It isn't shitty . It is utterly evil . Disband all insurance companies . Stop the murders of thousands of innocent people.

[@thetruthserum2816]

Meanwhile, I pay $600 per month for healthcare "insurance" so that we can enrich a Billion dollar predatory industry while we get 3rd world health outcomes. That's $20 per day...

[@sepehr.javaheri]

@@thetruthserum2816 It's simply a scam that kills countless people when they're in need of a service they paid for, stay healthy.

[@markantrobus8782]

Luigi Mangione - would have studied up on health care. And was appalled. He has a social conscience unlike most politicians in power. He exposed the rot with a single shot, tragically, again, for all around.

[@tonedowne]

@@markantrobus8782 It’s like the gun nuts are always saying, the 2nd is there to protect against tyranny. The healthcare “system” is a tyrannical extortion operation that has bought off all the politicians. So when you make political change impossible, you make violence inevitable

[@michaelgl8516]

Remember when Republicans used to argue against universal healthcare by saying citizens could never afford it (which was a lie to begin with). And now that all these insurance CEOs are getting discovered for all their cheating and wasting BILLIONS (literally) of American's taxdollars, the mentality is turning to "We can't afford to not have universal healthcare."

[@CalHarle]

Old Canadian here. You get what need when you need. Some people’s definition of need is different than others, but if you need life saving surgery, you get it. Now! All you pay is parking.

[@worer850]

💯

[@Bundysvideos]

Yup! Canadian here..

[@davidphinn9646]

Well said. Also from 🍁. I'm grateful for the times I needed a hospital. Just show your health card

[@northerngirl1637]

Well well worth any higher taxes! I've got dual citizenship, having spent 1/2 my life in Canada and 1/2 here in the states. Canadian not perfect, but waaaaay waaaaay waaaaay better than US warped corrupt system!

[@Maartimer]

Yeah, Norwegian guy here who has to pay for the hospital parking too. Tens of dollars a day for parking while getting free health care. EDIT: The main reason hospital parking isn't free here is to disincentivize clogging up the parking lot. Instead you can get any healthcare-related travel covered by the state if you apply for it ("pasientreiser"), even taxis.

[@nikolasb2933]

Americans should be protesting in streets over this TOTALLY NEEDLESS INJUSTICE.

[@RickRichard-s6t]

Kyle has never marched on a road in his life he should be in jail ten times by now for gaza yet never even put on shoes to take a walk

[@George-k6o9t]

Well, Americans keep voting for politicians and parties that do not support a Universal National Healthcare System and which even work AGAINST having one and so, what do they expect?

[@ExtraArk]

They did, Occupy Wall Street was doing it. Then the culture war got really bad. Corporations started using LGBT stuff as a shield and people just went along with it.

[@linrook6459]

Americans have been shamed into believing that we HAVE to pay for healthcare or you (your job) worthless.

[@karstenvoigt7280]

They won't. I bet, if George III. would have told them: "We reorganized. We're not a government anymore. We're a company now. And our business model is to charge and exploit the shit out of you.", they wouldn't even have declared independence.

[@juliosalinas4436]

My wife and I had Covid... I was in the Hospital for 16 days (ICU 11 days), and my wife was for 10 days . Thank God we never pay a single penny except for the ambulance service (@ $ 160.00 per service). We are fortunate to live in Canada!!!

[@victordecastro7221]

_ exactly why orangeface wants to 'conquer' Canada - money to be made from this spoiled Canadians !?!

[@warriorwaitress7690]

American here. In 2010 I ended up in the emergency room for an easily treatable illness that rapidly escalated into advanced sepsis (severe blood poisoning caused by infection), because I didn't have any health insurance, couldn't afford the out-of-pocket cost for a simple doctor's visit while it was still a minor health issue, and I mistakenly hoped it would resolve itself. The ER doctor told me that if I'd waited another 12 hours to come in, I wouldn't have survived. Then I spent another 9 or 10 years having my paycheck garnished to pay off the ER bill. I came THIS close to leaving my kids without a mother. I'll never not resent this story. Our system is downright barbaric.

[@nfbody]

I’m so sorry for that :( that’s not ‘first world country’ behaviour.

[@foreverwantingpie]

Thats horrible

[@Carolina-uf2ip]

I’m Canadian, I had sepsis, thought I had a cold but was pneumonia that infected my blood. Had my husband not came home when he did I’d have died. Was airlifted from our hospital to a specialized hospital. I was hospitalized for 9 days, paid 160.00 for the air ambulance, health care paid the remainder of the cost. I can’t imagine being left with a huge bill at the end.

[@brandirose3874]

If I may.....🫂

[@jamesbruce6864]

@@warriorwaitress7690 I had to file bankruptcy

[@thrillergirl021]

I'm Canadian. Shortly after my daughter was born, she had to be hospitalized for 2 weeks. For 2 weeks, I stayed with my baby in a private room with access to a private bathroom. I, not my baby, was fed 3 meals a day. I had access to all the baby formula (in the middle of the baby formula shortage, mind you), and diapers I needed. I had access to 24h lactating experts. A few days after my daughter was hospitalized, we took a 40 min ambulance ride to a nearby children hospital so they could insert a pic line in her arm. A nurse came along and stayed with us for the entire time (8 hours). You wanna know how much that cost me? Nothing. Zero. Nada. All I had to do was show my health card. I know our system may not be perfect, but when I needed it, the system was there and saved my daughter's life with not cost attached. And that's the way it should be. I cannot imagine how much this would've cost had we lived in the US. And the thing is, everybody's going to need healthcare at one point or another in their life.

[@ShaunMichaelW]

One correction, you did pay for it, but through taxes which is smarter

[@ewpls4002]

Easily would’ve probably been around $2 million in the US, I’m so glad yall were able to get your care for free 💙

[@eponack]

If she wasn’t denied into her early grave, you would have been lucky. And if she died because of the health interruption company, you’d still get the bill of what your company didn’t cover.

[@eponack]

If she wasn’t denied into her early grave, you would have been lucky. And if she died because of the health interruption company, you’d still get the bill of what your company didn’t cover.

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

@@ShaunMichaelW - ya but it's amortized throughout the population. And guess what, as a percentage of GDP, it's lower than the US.

[@Mooray27]

I had the misfortune of staying in a US hospital for one night. Needed an ambulance and a CT scan. $25,000 bill!!! Couldn’t believe it! Thank god I had really good travel insurance. I told everyone at my work (an NHS hospital) and they were gobsmacked. The hospital looked really fancy from the outside and had valet parking but inside it was no better than our local hospital. The food was totally inedible and the staff were mean! The NHS is the UKs finest achievement. I feel sorry for Americans.

[@BruiseLeebels]

As a Brit living in the U.S. for the last 25 years. I tried to tell an American friend how Americans were being screwed over by their healthcare system (when I first moved here). She told me I was rude and if I didn’t like it, I should move back to the UK. I sure do miss the NHS.

[@tsocanuck]

thats NUTS

[@howardj602]

@@BruiseLeebels You should be an American and tell your friends how much they are being taken advantage of. I've been called everything from a socialist to a Marxist to an anarchist.

[@natronmeans6264]

"The hospital looked really fancy from the outside".. This in a Nutshell describes our Country..

[@Mooray27]

@@natronmeans6264 I honestly couldn’t believe it. I had imagined that with all the money going into the system that there would be plenty of staff and they would have time to spend with their patients caring and listening to them (as I do with my patients), and that as a paying customer I’d be spoken to with kindness and respect and treated to a nice environment and high quality food. Nope. And don’t even start me on urgent care! It was busy, short staffed and some of the staff were just on autopilot and/ or nasty. A nurse came in and read aloud for a corporate mission statement like a robot then gave me a row for not wearing some stupid grippy socks ( I had a fever- I didn’t want to wear socks!) There was no compassion or normal human interaction. I hadn’t eaten for days so once they got me on the mend I was really hungry. They brought me some breakfast the next day and I started eating quickly but spat that shit out instantly! It was so disgusting. Even the linen was terrible quality! Clearly not only is the system ineffective and immoral it is also inadequately staffed and lacking in patient centred care.

[@khatarootube]

I was on life support last month. My bill was over $200,000. That is a house in some states. Im so grateful I'm alive. I needed to be transported by ambulance to a hospital that my insurance carries was located and less than 5 miles was over $5,000. Thank goodness for insurance but Single payer healthcare needs to be implimented in the States.

[@charlottalm8839]

I got breast cancer in Sweden. The treatment I received was a mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy, chemotherapy, heredity testing, double mastectomy, axillary dissection, radiation, 3 days of hospitalization, physical therapy, 2 CT scans, a year's sick leave, and hormone therapy. Guess what I paid? 110 dollars.

[@user-TM59]

😮

[@jyhina]

Better yet, we are currently capped at ~$130 per 12-month period for total overall fees. We also have a similar cap at ~$260 on prescribed pharmaceuticals.

[@InnocentPotato-pd7wi]

My brother ,a Big 45 MAGA fan works for a Swedish company. He and his family lived in Sweden for 3 years! Then he says this to his Very Progressive Bernie Sanders supporting sister, " It's NOT very STRESSFUL living here in Sweden !" 🤔🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄🙄"Ya think? " I replied, laughing at him! 🤔🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄🙄🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@lindam.2832]

It’s the same in Canada. The US citizenry is so busy flag-waving they don’t see beyond their borders. Home of the brave! You bet!

[@Kstanimal]

Ugh man this makes me want to cry lol 😭 that sounds like a freaking utopia

[@desertstar223]

Can anyone remember how American athletes jumped to make use of all of the free medical services that was provided at the Olympic Games. The other athletes were shocked and surprised.

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

people don't get how shit is fucked up here in America smh

[@talyahr3302]

Embarrassing, pathetic, and sad. It's so ridiculous.

[@jivet3919]

@@talyahr3302 The US is a fake corporate country. Like disneyland

[@ElfHostage]

In 2028 europeans are gonna have medical issues (sickness, injuries) while in the USA and get shocked by the costs.

[@lpi6608]

Like chinese old ladies at a food buffet.

[@Collinthegiant]

Canadian here. People tell horror stories about our long lines, but they are mostly exaggerated, or there was some huge tragic accident that slowed things down or something. Recently, I broke my arm playing hockey. I didn't mind being given some painkillers and kept comfortable for about 6 hours before they could set it while people with heart issues were being treated. If that's the cost of our system, we pay it gladly.

[@writerconsidered]

6 hrs is short time. An American emergency room it takes 8 to 12 hours just to get from the waiting room to an examining room. More hours to be seen. More hours for imaging. Then a diagnoses and treatment. You can spend 20 to 24 hrs in the ER for a broken arm. So the less wait time in America is myth. We wait because of understaffing and overcrowding. The overcrowding is caused by not having insurance to take care of normal things in an outpatient setting. And the understaffing is the for profit hospitals trying to suck the most out of profit margin by shorting staff. Oh and by the way you wouldn't be made comfortable that entire time.

[@shripleypibbles]

We have long waits as well and in my experience you’re lucky to even be made comfortable at all.

[@nicciebunny]

We wait 12 hours to be seen and lied to and years for without pain relieving mediation

[@lemonielala3080]

I try to see it as: if you're waiting you're still relatively ok. It means that there are people in worse condition being treated before you. And you never have to think that someone is blowing past you in the queue because they have more money. We're all in the same waiting room getting the same assessments. I've sat for a few hours with a child with a flu, but when I had symptoms of a heart attack I was seen/assessed before the others in the waiting room. When waiting I just keep telling myself "I'm good, this just means I'm good".

[@henrysinclair5914]

it isnt exaggerated at all

[@ambushpredator7629]

I am a U.S citizen/ landed Immigrant living in Canada just over 24 years after leaving the U.S Army and I enjoy the Health Care For All system vs the USA's death system for all. It's amazing how Americas are not out in the streets protesting against this injustice.

[@paulgreen758]

mate you've got sense, not many of you have, my 1 visit there for work resulted in my American boss emailing my UK boss as to why I wouldn't answer the phone or respond to emails after work or at the weekend, we are not allowed to, I was flown back on the Monday and had to do the work remotely

[@afterhourscinema782]

*Fun fact:* Apparently, the SNITCH who turned in our boi Luigi is having a hard time collecting the reward money 😂 Serves them right

[@JBLegal09]

Good - btw $10K was a stupid low amount anyway.

[@efulmer8675]

I've read the reward was supposed to be $60k but no matter how much, still fucking shitty.

[@Nyan4Eon]

They never get the money, reward money is a hoax. The person who told them about Osama never received a dime.

[@cjthemisfit]

I heard she also got fired from her job

[@gn3xu5]

So many scams in America even rewards

[@shelbzillathrilla]

Father of five in Canada. First class maternity ward in my local hospital, incredible service and supports. Multiple nights stayed per birth. Zero dollars later I pay my very modest taxes without hesitation or regret.

[@Chesside]

My son was born in Canada when we lived in Toronto. Very good care. Back in the US now😮

[@hardystein114]

That is so good to hear , and I agree with you 💯. It`s the same here in Australia .

[@zoyadulzura7490]

The U.S. can get this, too! With a lot of work, focus, and energy, we can replace the system.

[@Boomerbich]

I know you Canadians don’t want us Americans there. I wish you did. I am so ashamed at what Trump said about Canada being the 51st state and calling Governor Trudeau. He threatens to take your water!

[@colleenpeck6347]

I wish that "normal " Americans without a criminal record could get Temporary Protection Status in Canada for the 4 years of Trump's dictatorship.

[@Voodooray007]

"If you're poor, you're dead". SEEMS THAT WAY!! 🙄

[@lizhannan9440]

This is how it is in Australia too. If you need emergency care you get it, intensive care coronary care anything, you get it no matter your status. My grandson was in a car accident while driving home from work. A woman crossed his lane and hit him at speed. He was airlifted to our major hospital. He was rushed into surgery for multiple injuries including compound fractures in his arm and right leg. He suffered a brain injury too and was then in ICU for weeks in an induced coma he received the same care from specialists a person paying private health insurance would get. After he was woken out of the coma, it was another week or more before he could be relocated to a rehab ward where he received for physio, speech therapy etc.. After a few months he was discharged and referred to the acquired brain injury clinic for follow up. Thankfully he is okay, and has made a remarkable recovery. At no time, did he have to pay a single cent towards his care he came out after all of that with NO DEBT. If you are uninsured but covered under our Medicare you may have to wait for (elective) surgery which is not good but it's better than nothing at all. We have caps on prescription fees to a degree and most drugs are affordable. Again, not a perfect system but still better than the US system. At least here, you can have a baby and not pay for it. Health CARE should not be for PROFIT. Get rid of the middlemen, they are what has destroyed your system. Look into why your health insurance started in the first place, who started it and what was the rationale. YOU'LL be shocked it was about race!

[@rosskenneger5581]

I broke both my legs in car accident in Toronto. I was immediately taken care of and spent 2 months in special care. Beautiful care. Spotless clean service and nice nurses. No waiting. For free.

[@SandraSchemmer]

Actually not free. We pay for it through our taxes…but definitely worth it!!

[@patkristl3705]

Same as Australia ​@@SandraSchemmer

[@hugegamer5988]

My wife is a doctor, we have the best insurance doctors can buy and I had to wait 9 months to see a neurologist. You wait even on vastly overpriced rich peoples plans, you just never get seen on anything less. The idea you don’t wait in America is insane.

[@stevelovescars]

In Michigan there are long waits and many doctors aren’t even accepting new patients.

[@skierprincessakify]

Doctors can buy really good health insurance? I’m a nurse practitioner and have horrible coverage on the ACA, unfortunately nurses and NPs aren’t viewed as important to the healthcare system.

[@chrisgraham2904]

My Canadian brother has been living in the U.S. since 1992. He has received excellent healthcare from excellent health insurance, but his wife is a doctor.

[@dollyhood6549]

@@skierprincessakifyeven the hospital owners have doctors & nurses by the cahones. I heard about that Seton Health care hack thing last year & it was deplorable how the owners wouldn’t help yall out. Howdy from TX

[@Brian-xu9di]

I am due to have a kidney transplant in February, but Tufts Medical is demanding that I get a prostate MRI. I can't get in anywhere until March. I guess I will have to postpone my kidney transplant a couple of months, as Tufts is also demanding that I get a biopsy. I wonder if they are running as many tests as possible to rack up the bill.

[@dogrrl1]

I had a booming business in San Francisco and I became really sick and had a bad infection and my heart stopped. I lost my business all my savings and my health because of our healthcare system. No one would help me and it took my heart stopping to get medical care which I could not afford, and my insurance did not cover.I had to go live with my parents at the age of 48.

[@tonydalton459]

Holy Cow. That’s appalling. I’m Irish, and our system isn’t great. You can get free health care, but if you have the money you can take out private insurance, which means you can effectively que jump. If you are on a public waiting list you can be waiting for a long time. You can get a Medical card which means everything is free, but it’s means tested. It’s shocking how awful the US system is.

[@Eclipse503]

I fainted at a restaurant, and my friends called an ambulance. I was billed $45.00 for the ride. Subsequently, I found out that Americans without insurance can be stuck with an ambulance bill from 3K to 5K, it blew my mind! I'm hoping for positive changes for all Americans. You deserve better!

[@cablehogue599]

And with a successful business in a high cost of living area, you were doing better than the vast majority of people

[@emmafrench7219]

@tonydalton459 You've actually just taught me something today. I'm in England and I honestly didn't know that it is a bit different for the Irish people. I just assumed (which I shouldn't) that it was the same in both. Mind you how lucky are we that we don't have the same system as USA?

[@ny3683syr]

Been there. I became disabled at age 50, mainly because the medical treatment I received even with insurance was so crappy I endured unnecessary severe, chronic pain for a year. I lost everything I ever earned during a very successful professional career, and ended up living in my mom's 8x10 guest room until I could win my disability claim.

[@dorfone]

I am so glad I live in Canada. I have had a half dozen major surgeries in the last ten years or so. One required a month long stay in the hospital. Yet, I never had to pay a cent for any of it. Nothing, nada, zero. I never had to go through an insurance company, never had to get an approval, there were in insurance premiums to pay and no co-pays. Canada's health care system is far from perfect but it is one heckuva a lot better than in the USA.

[@ilexevergreen5405]

I'm Canadian. I'm not astonished. It's been well-known how infinitely cruel the system is in the U.S. Completely inhumane & corrupt.

[@agathajadwiszczok3503]

If you live in a Latino or black neighborhood, it is even WORSE. Let me paint you a picture. Covid tests are $250, if they even exist at all. The so-called doctor at the urgent care is a pervert who sexually harasses women. The physical therapist also sexually harasses women. The clinic is packed with people and the simplest thing takes 8 hours to handle in the emergency room. The pharmacist is a lunatic who screams hysterically at you when you fill your pills, cause he apparently assumes you are a drug addict. When you go to the clinic, the receptionist's kids are running around, cause she apparently can't afford a babysitter. The simplest thing takes 15 minutes to explain cause the receptionist can't speak English, doesn't give a fuck about the job or doesn't understand how insurance works or all 3.

[@ilexevergreen5405]

Rampant inequality & lightning speed gentrification up here, too. Only increasing by the second d/t 24/7 business ...buying & flipping 1000s of Canadian homes overseas while we sleep. If only we had a right to shelter as well as *basic* healthcare. We were lucky to get socialized medicine long ago. They'd never give it to us in more modern times either. Wouldn't be surprised if they're looking at taking it away to boost "the economy."

[@RickRichard-s6t]

Canada not much better man we just don’t charge you at the desk that’s really the most evil thing you think they do?

[@9y2bgy]

Yeah, it's inhumane to charge for skin-to-skin for the new mother and baby. They're raising traumatized people starting from birth. What a crappy system....

[@cslattfri]

I love how people in the US that are opposed to single payer health insurance (M4A) complain about Canadians and people in the UK waiting to see their doctors. AS IF AMERICANS AREN'T WAITING TO SEE THEIR DOCTORS! My husband had terrible pain and his PCP said he has Rheumatoid Arthritis. He had to wait 3 months for an appointment for an RA specialists so he can get prescribed drugs. He was suffering and couldn't lift his arms above his shoulders. I have friends all over the globe including England, Canada, and Ireland. They never complain about having to wait too long for care. If they stub their toe they wait. If they have pancreatic cancer they don't. This is not hard.

[@sinisterkitty8411]

Yeah, this gets me too. Everyone knows that, short of a dire emergency, it's pretty much a 2 month min. wait for a specialist. And can go as high as 6 months or more. And that is often just to see a nurse practitioner who will then decide if the actual dr. needs to see you.

[@cslattfri]

@@sinisterkitty8411 I work in medical, used to work for an Oncology practice. Most patients were dumped on the nurse practitioners because the MDs schedules were so overbooked. Due to the high cost of drugs and other supplies the profits were going down so low they needed to pack the office to make money. And we all suffer for that. Less than great quality care. It's terrible!

[@anthonydelfino6171]

if you have the money, care can absolutely be faster in the US, but that's only because of all the people who aren't getting care at all

[@cslattfri]

@@anthonydelfino6171 I'm sure that's true. I also think that when people have easy and affordable healthcare like in the UK, people would likely have less emergencies because they would be able to go to their PCP for minor aches and pains or miscellaneous symptoms BEFORE they turn into serious health issues that will cost way more money than it would have had they had care from the start. This is why our health outcomes are worse. It's LUNACY.

[@joeblowe3180]

You aren't American... we don't use the term "PCP". That was a dead giveaway that you're lying

[@Jeahkir]

A German friend of mine made an internship in Seattle in 2000. His wife was pregnant then. They had a healthinsurance through their German employer (a social institution) but nobody had payed attention that it covers childbirth. The baby came 5 weeks too early, had to stay in hospital and the bill was over 80.000 Dollars. Since then, nobody is allowed to stay in the US while pregnant when making an internship...

[@cegesh1459]

I would sumply return to Europe and not pay.

[@writerconsidered]

Should of headed north into Canada.

[@paulbelisle7213]

Glad I don’t live in the US. I’ve never been sick. My son had to have kidney surgery when he was 3. Would have set me back a couple hundred thousand dollars back in the 90s. My other son required surgery for a hernia…not sure the cost on it. My wife had an inverted uteri’s when child 1 was born, she had gall bladder removed, appendicitis, breast cancer that took her life (chemo, radiation, many surgeries). I’d be broke….no fault of my own butI live in Canada where there is healthcare….and the costs were minimal.

[@michaelaghmalone-hansen5656]

Most Americans have NO idea because it's all they know. As a Brit who moved to the US 12 years ago, it never dawned on me just how great the NHS was, because I knew no different, it was the norm & I took it for granted. Until I moved here! Americans are fed lies about the health system outside the US and they believe the lies, they know no different. The UK's NHS is struggling right now, some areas are fine some areas have it bad. People waiting weeks for an appointment or hours for an ambulance or sat in waiting rooms for hours on end, however, unlike here in the US, they are not worried about a crippling bill at the end of their treatment AND if they miss work, they will get SICK PAY! I have waited weeks for a doctors appointment here, so it's not much better. Healthcare should NEVER be run as a for profit business! WHY would a business want to make their customers well when they can keep them sick and bill them for check ups, procedures and monthly meds?! It is not in their interest to cure their customers, they need paying customers. Then you have the food industry, I have NEVER seen so many RECALLS for food products in my entire life, until I came here. Foods here that are banned in most other countries, because they contain cancer causing banned ingredients, well why not?! Does the food industry get a kick back from the healthcare business for making Americans sick? It would NOT surprise me.

[@luodeligesi7238]

When you factor the time we hold off from health care so we can save up for the cost (years at a time), the time people wait under universal healthcare is suddenly almost nothing by comparison.

[@Chaoitcme]

It is amazing how brainwashed a lot of Americans are. They really do think they are the land of the free with all of the freedoms of the world.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

they're told it's bad, which is true. but also there was an entire generation here (the boomers) brought up in the red scare where anything that was remotely socialist was evil and taught to worship at the altar of capitalism. my parents are part of this group and decry the evils of socialism every time they talk to me these days. and that doesn't even consider that we have a lot of insane religious organizations here who have lobbied HARD to make sure that universal healthcare doesn't happen because, as they see it, it would be an infringement on their religious right to use faith healing instead of... you know... science

[@jaythephoenix]

I say this as a friend and not as anti immigrant sentiment: go back to your country 😅 My psycho online Brit friend wants to move here and I just cant, yo.

[@hugegamer5988]

I would tell people 30 years ago medical bankruptcy was the most common kind and maybe 1/10 people believed me. They had been misled by propaganda since birth.

[@Koldfusion234]

Moving to Canada is looking more and more attractive these days

[@YoYo_Ma]

Good luck.

[@Thatguyjack758]

Denmark or Austria for me.

[@winnieanosike]

i'm honestly trying to move to Toronto in the future

[@Kiljaedenas]

BC resident here...ever since Trump won I've been seeing a LOT of Washington plates on the cars up here during my commutes, several times more than ever before...househunting trips maybe?

[@itsspookie]

​@@YoYo_Ma I'd rather your type to be the ones to leave.

[@JustB-cuz]

My friend died last summer. He had a bad cold, but he had recently started a new job and had to wait 3 months before his insurance kicked in. His cold got worse so we offered to take him to the hospital. He hemmed and hawed and said he could not afford the cost of the ER or the hospital. He was still paying off the hospital bill for a detached retina two years prior, so he declined. He’d tough it out. That was Friday. We called on Sunday but got no answer and figured he was sleeping. His job called his family for a wellness check on Tuesday since they hadn’t heard from him. The police went to his apartment and found him dead. So sad. He was 58, no major health problems. Walked a lot. Worked out. He died of pneumonia. Healthcare tied to employment status is abominable. Why did he have to wait for insurance coverage? Truly live or die, and he’s one of thousands who die because the cannot afford the bill to leave.

[@chrislinhares7311]

I had CANCER (lump under my arm) when starting a new job and had to wait for my insurance to kick in before seeing any doctor. I was just lucky to get treatment in time.

[@JustB-cuz]

@ I am glad you got coverage in time! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Steve-k4f5z]

You are lying or stupid. No ER refuses treatment to anyone.

[@ronbelanger4113]

Got your "freedom" though.

[@EmyrRees-n6j]

70 year old Brit hear good video, I have never had to pay anything for health care ever, the NHS is the gift that keeps giving, Americans think it is socialism, but you live the American dream, we are awake in the UK.

[@ekmatteau]

Canadian here, I am not laughing, I am not mocking. I sincerely hope you manage to get a better healthcare system.

[@fefelarue2948]

We won’t.

[@kevlap017]

Canadian too, i think we are the ones that will get a worse system... The conservatives sure are aiming for that

[@B-A-L]

Not a chance when they have the worlds largest military to pay for!

[@alpearson9158]

@@kevlap017 in 1972 the conservatives said it will never work funny 42 years later it is still here ( recovering from the pandemic ) but still working

[@Oscar-nf6yt]

I'm from Canada. This is my first time watching those videos. My jaw just dropped when I heard the price of an inhaler, IUD, or two weeks in the hospital!

[@RickRichard-s6t]

How about the cost for the drugs that kill you while you have cancer you will be fighting in court just to be covered real miracle system we have in Canada

[@afterhourscinema782]

From time to time, I go to Mexico to buy cheaper prescriptions since I live an hour away from the border. And each time I ask myself, *"Why is this necessary??"*

[@obsoleteelite8258]

Right wing bootlicking simps and corporate dems.

[@plantbasedsenior4240]

We get Americans that come to Canada as well for that purpose.

[@OctyabrAprelya]

Yachts don't buy themselves 🤣

[@luodeligesi7238]

Politicians have been trying to make travel to Mexico or Canada for health care illegal for a while now

[@christinebuckingham8369]

@@OctyabrAprelyaTo make it worse, they can write off the Entire Cost of that Yacht Off of their Taxes!

[@trygvehadland9560]

From a Nordic point of view... I can't even understand how the US got into that situation.... For us, the word corruption will probably be the word...

[@mozar5175]

Wife had a meningioma (non-cancerous brain tumour) removed from her brain 2 years ago. A very delicate operation. She was in the OR for almost 9 hours, spent 5 days at the hospital, got medication for several weeks, etc. We have absolutely no clue how much all of the cares she received cost. We live in Montreal, Canada, I know it gets cold in the winter months, sometimes we have to wait to receive care, in other words, our system has flaws. But I will be thankful for the rest of my life to the surgeon that saved my wife and also to our healthcare system.

[@Kauffy901]

Don't forget to thank Tommy Douglas!

[@BrynnCReilly]

Heres the funny part, people in america attack the wait time, but we in america wait just as long if not MORE SO. had my SO wait months for a simply appointment for a skin specialist.

[@djspit8929]

In america youd be near $100k in the hole for an intrusive surgery and all the subsequent care like that

[@amybrown6540]

⁠@@djspit8929yes! I nearly died in 2005 when a rare blood disorder shut down my kidneys and nearly killed me. My sister gave me a kidney the next year. It was financially devastating. I will need continuing care for the rest of my life. Bc I am immuno compromised, I get sick easily and it takes a long time to recover. The talks of cutting SS & Medicare scare me. I don’t know how I will survive…financially and otherwise.

[@alpearson9158]

@@Kauffy901 he began it but a federal government created a Canadian system not Tommy each province maintains their system

[@sunderlandshorts9320]

had a broken arm in UK, in and out in 36hours, nuts and bolts in my arm now. Free of charge.. probably have me in debt for life in America. I feel for you guys. 🇬🇧

[@corneliusantonius3108]

It pays of to fly your broken Arm to Europe

[@anthonydelfino6171]

this is why so many Americans file for bankruptcy.... which you also have to PAY to do here. You can't just go to a judge and say you have no money... no no, you have to pay thousands of dollars for the privilege to tell a judge you have no money

[@danielbroome5690]

Broke my arm in Canada, in and out in less than 7 hours and I got there at like midnight at their lowest staffing level.

[@shad0wCh8ser]

oh.., lots of ppl walking around with a limp or holding their arm bc they don't want to get it checked out.

[@Ryu1ify]

Broken leg in US. A missed forum nearly billed us $40k before we sent it through

[@Marvinmartion]

I’ve had multiple conversations with people from other countries about health care. Countries like France, Canada Germany, Australia, Newzeland, and Great Britain. And all of them are baffled by why we have such a corrupt and complicated system! Why would we vote for this nightmare?!

[@TheUnconventionalThought]

Same reason we vote for Trump.

[@HattieLankford-24]

Taxes are also a joke

[@HattieLankford-24]

​@@TheUnconventionalThought Nihilistic sociopathy?

[@davefield64]

You vote for it because of communal stupidity inbred at birth and concreted in by willful ignorance

[@sandpiperr]

As a former Bernie Sanders supporter, I wonder that too!

[@Daneil-de-Bosola]

I've lived in both single payer (Canada) and private (US) countries. In The US I had company paid insurance and for any little small thing it was super quick. Even with insurance, getting approved for expensive stuff was hard. In Canada, small stuff takes forever. Big stuff is just done when it needs to be and it costs you $0.00. Give me Canada any day of the week!

[@ThreaT650]

People who cry about waiting lines for healthcare are essentially arguing that they want to keep nearly 100 million people in the US without feasible access to comprehensive healthcare, so that they do not have to stand in line behind them. Once you realize that, you realize the whole argument is absurd. Never mind the fact that a lot of countries have smaller waiting lines than we already have.

[@jonnymahony9402]

The waiting lines are because the same lobbyists who are responsible for the US system are trying to destroy the systems in Europe through privatization and the lobbyists are already influencing governments in Europe. Don't be misled, we have this rot all over the world.

[@henrysinclair5914]

how is dying while waiting for treatment an absurd argument?

[@stephenolan5539]

​@henrysinclair5914 Which way are you arguing? A lot of Americans don't due in line. Because they can't afford to be in the line. Americans have more dieing.

[@Imman1s]

@@henrysinclair5914 You are not dying waiting for treatment; if you need immediate care, you will get it right away. The wait is for elective (aka, non life-threatening procedures), which is annoying, but keeps the costs down.

[@henrysinclair5914]

@@Imman1s lol ok elective heart surgery, got it

[@Kebby-d3b]

In Canada, I had to wait four weeks for a referral to an oncologist, then another four weeks to find out what the biopsy revealed, but then when I found out it was cancer, I only had to wait eight days for cancer surgery.

[@Killersam776]

Wouldn’t be any faster in the US. My wife had to wait about 5 months to see the specialist she needed

[@amandaoconnor2854]

I'm sorry you had to wait even that long in Canada - it does depend what city and/or province you're in. My friend here in Calgary, Alberta discovered a big lump in her breast. Her GP saw her three days later and sent her for a Mammogram & ultrasound that afternoon. She saw a surgeon for a biopsy the following week and had an oncologist ordering further surgeon and chemo two weeks later. We also have an excellent cancer treatment centre here which also provided my friend with counseling, one-on-one support with medical forms, applying for disability, educational sessions for her and her family, and certificates towards purchasing wigs. All this was free under our health system.

[@sketchysceptic]

My daughter waited close to that time in the US. She had insurance through her employer. Even with that her out of pocket cost was 22,O00. She’s still paying on it with interest.

[@SandraRobinson-f3r]

🇦🇺​ Sounds about same as ours, in regional areas the pay for airfares etc, or if realy bad we go on our free Flying Doctor service.@@amandaoconnor2854

[@devontoombs4141]

They need to offer more private options for healthcare in Canada.

[@RonaldRondeau-vj5oh]

Healthcare is free in Cuba! Healthcare is free in Argentina, even for tourists!

[@northuniverse]

Viva Cuba Viva revolución Viva Fidel

[@Professor__S]

Cuba might have free healthcare but the quality of life is pretty bad..

[@northuniverse]

@@Professor__S That's just because USA has been spreading freedom to Cuba. They call it sanctions.

[@amandaoconnor2854]

​@@Professor__SMainly because the US has had them on sanctions for +60 years. Don't you think it's time for the US to get over it?

[@lorrainemoynehan6791]

@@Professor__S and yet they have a longer life expectancy

[@billfarley9167]

Canadian here: I'm 90 years old and considered a low-income senior. Last year I hopped off the back of my Ranger pickup, (backwards) caught my right foot on one of the tailgate cables and fell to the ground (gravel) and broke my hip. Snapped clean at the ball. That was 9:00 o'clock in the morning. EMS vehicle was there in 15 minutes (my cellphone call) and an hour later I had been thru X-ray and talking with the duty surgeon. By 8:00 o'clock that same night I had a brand new titanium hip installed. Spent three days in hospital, then transferred to a physiotherapy facility where I spent two months in rehab. Total cost to me: $30 FOR THE AMBULANCE RIDE. Let me tell you a story: My Canadian cousin moved to Phoenix, AZ with his family when he was 12 years old. He eventually married an American lady and they had two boys. Fast forward about 35 years when I visited my cousin and met his two boys, who were now in their 20's. They would come for Sunday dinner and we would get into comparing US/Canadian systems. When we got into comparing healthcare I explained the Universal Healthcare system in Canada to which they replied, "That's communism." I was stunned to say the least. They went on to say, there's no way my hard earned tax dollars should be going toward the healthcare of a bunch of welfare bums, the homeless and other leaches who don't want to work. AND THAT, MY AMERICAN FRIENDS, IS PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH YOUR COUNTRY. INDIVIDUALISM, PURE SELFISHNESS AND SCREW YOU.

[@colmastro4373]

Ex texan, Australian citizen here. Broke my back when an unlicensed person was on a jet ski and ran into me on mine. 9 months later, ambulance helicopter (i pay $45 a year for ambulance cover), hospital for 3 weeks, medication, rehab etc etc. Total cost: $45+$11 per month for pain meds.

[@bt2598]

Wow that’s insane

[@JBLegal09]

Hope you're better now. Bet you're glad you moved here though 😁

[@jbramblett]

That's amazing... I broke my leg 6 years ago and the total bill for everything was $250,000... I had to have two surgeries... But basically a quarter of a million dollars to fix a broken leg

[@jazzoj5]

​@@jbramblettDamn

[@Killersam776]

My wife had a surgery recently, required an overnight stay. Was there for about 25 hours total, cost was nearly $100,000

[@sedgecircle]

I live in WA state. I can literally SEE CANADA from my house. Knowing that decent Healthcare is so close, but that I'm probably going to die prematurely? Well, that's a depressing thing to accept.

[@justindwight5457]

Went to ER for a broken nose. The doctor spent less than a minute in the room just to tell me there was nothing they can do. A year later I was in court being sued for $2,900 by the hospital. It’s not just the insurance companies. For profit hospitals need to go!

[@KimSmith-b9v]

How can it cost a million? It's mad. And ambulance for $2500 is ridicilous.

[@feiradragon7915]

This is why many Americans have a buddy system where a friend or family member drives the sick to the ER if it's necessary. We shouldn't have to but we adapt to the hardships placed on us the best we can.

[@lpi6608]

Canadian here, if you are in need of a specialist, let say throat cancer and you still smoke, guess what you are moved down the waiting list. So ones who do try to help themselves improve move up. Emergency room , normally the youngest or oldest get help first. In surgery you could be beside a homeless patient or a millionaire we are all treated the same. To hear the horror stories about United health and see their advertising is truly disgusting as a nation. What is with corporate grifters Lastly your future president talks about a concept of healthcare he has the top private hospitals looking into it. Wtf United!!!!!! This is corruption of the worst kind. .

[@ny3683syr]

Bingo. Oligarchies aren't much in the way of legitimate governments. They're just super gigantic criminal organizations where gangbangers steal everything that isn't nailed down from everyone else.

[@camiller4916]

He lied to get elected, no surprise there bcuz he is a proven liar. Now, he is backtracking to say, uh- the price of groceries won’t b going down. I’m not sure who he is blaming for that but he will prob toss out some blame soon. I am shocked at the ignorance and indifference of the voters in the US.

[@Falloulla]

I had a dream all my life to immigrate to US but life took me to Canada, ironically in 2016. I am so grateful to myself for this decision beyond the universal programs. I also want yo share in the English test center required for immigration status that time, I met an American (a lift-leaning woman) who escaped the Trump Era to live here. Ironically, she is my neighbor now after all those years since I met her. She seems well-adjusted here just like me.

[@scifirealism5943]

I cry reading that

[@Falloulla]

@scifirealism5943 come over here my friend

[@amandaoconnor2854]

I'm glad you came to Canada ❤️

[@Falloulla]

@amandaoconnor2854 thank you my friend ❤️

[@TrentSmithJangoStudios]

I'm so disgusted with my country electing Trump. I thought about going to Canada myself. This global demented state of consciousness my country is in is beyond comprehension.

[@C.R.MacDonald]

Canadian here. Kyle is right. We have Universal Healthcare and it's modeled on the "Triage" system, where you receive care based on need and severity (so life threatening emergencies get bumped to the top of the list). And you never have to worry about a bill; the government takes care of it from tax revenue. I couldn't imagine having to worry about finances while struggling with a medical issue. That's wild.

[@jgdooley2003]

The fact is that even in universal healthcare systems there is a specialty profession called medico-economics. This is a specialty where people decide on what procedures and medicines are possible within a given budget. Even in universal government funded systems which mostly exist in Europe there are limits to what can be done. People watch and compare with other countries and then have to agitate with their public representatives to improve services and cut waiting lists and times, not always successfully. Despite these limits and sometimes deficiencies there is at least an element of transparency and openess about the need to be accountable for healthcare and the need for constant improvement in its provision.

[@123Andersonev]

@@jgdooley2003 yeah but here's the thing, we have all the same treatments, there are generic drugs for everything and even the ones that aren't have to be put up for government tender, it acts as a braking mechanism on pharmaceutical profits, incentivising efficiency.

[@smooverr]

Canadian here - wait times here for non-elective surgeries can range from month to years, regardless of how necessary they are

[@chookie131]

Australian here - my sister gave birth to triplets at 27 weeks. Emergency C surgery, ambulance, NICU for 12 Weeks for all 3 boys. My sister and her husband took the boys home at 12 weeks in NICU after the best care ever and it cost $0. My nephews are now 9 and have zero health problems. You can’t tell me that our taxes paying for that is wrong. Healthcare is a right. America is an anomaly. Grow up! The biggest cost was parking at the hospital which was outrageous $22.

[@Alannaryshati]

I had a coworker (American) tell me that it was healthcare insurance that wasn’t a right not healthcare. He tried to equate it to car insurance which you can opt out of if you want to use public transportation.

[@writerconsidered]

It seems to be a common theme with Canadians saying they have to pay for parking to go to hospital. As an American I would thank the parking attendant, cry at him for a civilized healthcare system and give him a big fat tip for the privilege of parking.

[@chookie131]

@@Alannaryshati 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣holy moley propaganda is rife in America! Insanity

[@chookie131]

@@writerconsidered oh dear…… the Canadian and Australian humour Just went straight over your head didn’t it sweetie….

[@jax-p2u]

Aussie and I had similar in a way, I had cholestasis of pregnancy (liver failure) so hospital listed me as a liver failure patient for that, so I got the $600 dollar a month meds free. Had to have weekly blood tests and scans all done for free due to the liver failure. Child came a month early and via emergency c-section, weeklong stay in hospital and jaundice care for my lad. All in all, it cost me $0. Then too I had gallstones years later eventually (due to the liver failure I had). Was in and out of hospital 4 times needing a week stay each time on IV antibiotics as they scheduled my surgery. Had it removed, total cost $0. I love the Aussie system!

[@renardleblanc5556]

back in 2013, I suffered a stroke. Literally keeled over on the sidewalk. Someone driving by saw me curled up in a snowbank, called 911. The ambulance centre (a regional facility), was *literally* down the block, I could see it from where I collapsed. I spent 2 months in the hospital: daily occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech therapy. Regularly saw a neurologist and a cardiologist (turns out, the stroke was caused by a dissected carotid artery, resulting in a heart attack that precipitated the stroke itself). Had echocardiograms, MRI's, and my regular insulin&diabetic treatments the whole time. Wanna know how much the whole incident cost me? 15$ Not 15 thousand, not 15 hundred, *fifteen* dollars. *Canadian.* For a pizza I ordered and left in the nurses break room, because I felt like it. Otherwise, the provincial health system covered the whole lot of it.

[@amandafielding4451]

Same in Ireland. I had 3 complicated pregnanies which required long term hospital stays amounting to nearly 6 months in total in a private room, 1 emergency c-section with a week stay in ICU, 2 standard c-sections, babies in NICU for total of 9 weeks. Bill - 0. During the hospital stays I got sickness benefit and then when babies came home 6 months paid maternity. I cannot believe USA have a system that lets people just die if they can't afford it. If I was in USA with my pregnancies I'd have been bankrupt or dead.

[@huntercoleherr]

In the States, you would have died on the way to the much further in-network hospital, with the ambulance bill sent to your parents.

[@marciamariethompson6463]

@renardleblanc. YES, THAT'S THE GOOD CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. I KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAD A FULL HYSTERECTOMY, BLOOD WORKS THREE TIMES, DRIP FOR 3 DAYS, SEMI- PRIVATE ENSUITE WITH ONE OTHER PATIENT, TELEPHONES BY THEIR BEDS, 3 MEALS PER DAY, MEDICATION, DOCTOR VISITS, REGULAR NURSE VISITS. ALL FREE. THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

[@marciamariethompson6463]

@renardle. YES, THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS GOOD. I KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAD A FULL HYSTERECTOMY AND WAS IN A SEMI- PRIVATE ROOM WITH ONE OTHER PATIENT AND A FULL WASHROOM. BLOOD WORSK THREE DAYS, DRIP THREE DAYS, MEDICATION, THREE MEALS DAILY OF THEIR CHOICE AS A MENU WAS PROVIDED. DOCTOR AND NURSE REGULARLY CHECKED IN AND 5 DAYS FOUR NIGHTS STAY. $0 AT THE END OF THE SURGERY.

[@marciamariethompson6463]

KZbin STOP REMOVING MY COMMENTS. DOING THAT DOES NOT NEGATE THE FACTS THAT THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS WAY BETTER THAN YOUR POOR AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

[@NoDrizzy630]

When I made friends with Europeans particularly from the Netherlands and Sweden and the found out about healthcare in America they were absolutely disgusted. I had no idea how bad we are getting screwed until they told me about their healthcare. When I stayed in Sri Lanka, a country where there is serious poverty… but they have universal healthcare. It’s absolutely disgusting why in this clown car of a country we can pay to have a military that could eliminate all life on earth many times over but can’t do a damn thing for the citizens of this country. And they have the nerve to always preach about “muh freedoms” we are not free and have not been for a very long time.

[@r1learner178]

Smell the Freedumb.

[@jamesramirez8685]

@@NoDrizzy630 the citizens are very uneducated and they like it like that

[@ny3683syr]

Well, you know that socialism and the gubmint are vastly worse than medical bankruptcy or dying for lack of private health insurance. Do I have to put the "/s" for sarcasm?

[@viralbull8085]

@NoDrizzy630 Is a literal Mafia, the real Mafia, the cartels in Mexico are nothing but a subsidiary of the FDA. Anyone who had gone against them have had "accidents" in the most blatant way possible. They want everyone to know the accident was not really an accident but for legal reasons had to be reported as such

[@XZITT]

I love how everyone is screaming how it was just ice and Karma, That killed this CEO . and every greedy Billioner needs to get the same treatment. Yet Trump literally killed over a million people by lying that this was all just a passing phase that China virus was a hoax cause he didn't know and didn't want to listen to anyone . And those of us who were paying attention know too well about him. and thankfully, he was voted out on 2020 then before leaving he stole thousands of Top Seacret files started an Insurrection ,the women he rape were just either laughed at or paid off . and there is so much more cruelty that he has done. My point is the same people that are screaming and shouting justice has been handed out. Went out on Nov 5th and proudly voted for a life long Con -Man a really dangerous vindictive narcissist wanna be dictator and he has showed how much he hates this country and he has said that he loves the uneducated people of our country . MAGA yeah sure if you thouth prices were a bit high wait till Donnie Boy takes all you money and give it to all the billioner CEO'S that see the sign infront of the White House , America 4Sale to the highest bidders. Yeah, he will make America great again. So you know how I feel about these people who are complaining about Greedyv CEO'S and egg prices. You all that Voted for him proudly, wearing your red hats as a proud American. Oh you didn't see or didn't pay attantion you will all rip what you sow. The less uninformed ignorant Americans, the better for the whole world.

[@darkstock5103]

I suffered a migraine on the day the Queen of England died. It was my first ever migraine so obviously we went to a doctor. I was sent to a hospital for an MRI, and the doctors discovered that I had a misshaped pituitary gland. Hadn’t affected my life in any way up until that point but it would explain the migraine. Now my doctor had ordered a second MRI because even though he said it didn’t look cancerous, why take the risk? So I got sent back a few months later (Hadn’t suffered any migraines between then and the next appointment) for a contrast MRI, and it turns out the first MRI was wrong. I didn’t have a misshaped pituitary gland at all. Literally nothing was wrong with my brain. I had received two MRIs to basically get told “Nothing is wrong with you” The fact that if I was in the states my family would have had to pay upwards of several thousand dollars just for the hospital to tell us that there is literally nothing wrong with me is sickening

[@Spiffvee]

No system should be this heartless. As a Canadian to a neighbour. Your government should want to see you healthy and successful for a strong country.

[@susanfletcher3929]

Yeah, this confuses me. Shouldn’t capitalist countries want healthy, robust workers to participate in the workforce. If everyone is sick, doesn’t it hurt your economy?

[@Vocal-Vegan]

@@susanfletcher3929 not whn those capitalists r vampires n leeches n have the mentality of feeding on the sick n weak..............but what Really keeps the vamping going is the indifference shown by the walkin ded

[@cantinadudes]

​@@susanfletcher3929yes thats what would happen in an ideal capitalist society. In an ideal capitalist society the companies would be trying their best to treat their workers and customers the best they can to increase long term profit. Sadly, we dont live in an ideal capitalist society. The capitalists at the top do not care what happens to their customers and workers as long as they get money. This means that for them, short term profit is much more attractive. In return they squeeze out as much money from the people as they can. Who cares if the peasants die? Its not like they can do anything about it since the rich control the system and they can just starve them if they ever act out of line. Its what they've been doing for years.

[@billfarley9167]

Here's another Canadian viewpoint: If American taxpayers support giving their military billions of dollars each year to kill people in other countries, why wont they give billions of their tax dollars to universal healthcare to keep people alive at home?

[@ronbelanger4113]

They keep on voting the same types into power though.

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success … in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[@amyboleszny543]

People should read Steinbeck to learn what could happen to them in the next four years.

[@roxybarone]

good

[@piccalillipit9211]

*TRUE STORY* I live in Bulgaria now - the POOREST country in the EU - I found a mole new, it was 108 hours from finding it to having it diagnosed, full blood workup and it being removed Cancerous but not dangerous. I've never paid tax here so I had to pay for everything - $175 for EVERYTHING. Obviously for citizens it would be free

[@chrislinhares7311]

Yeah, too bad that a bunch of corporate assholes who do nothing but have meetings, write bs reports all day, sit in front of a computer, and go to paid lunches didn't profit off of your misfortune.

[@Argonaut121]

I'm a Canadian. My only experience with the US healthcare system was about 10 years ago. My wife and I were skiing in Utah. She broke her leg badly. She was rushed to the hospital and operated on immediately. They did a wonderful job. She - and I (!) - were then put up in a luxurious private room for 4 days before she could be discharged. She was given great rehab. We ate like we were in a fine restaurant. Then - and only then - were we presented with a bill - for US$150,000. Thankfully, we had insurance that paid for all of it. A former colleague has a different story. He had a massive heart attack skiing in Colorado. His heart stopped. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital and brought back to life. Ten days later he got his bill: $400,000. But he had no insurance coverage. World class health care. World class price. I would not want to be anything less than well-to-do if I lived in the US.

[@hamiltonberger7389]

How about the people who HAVE insurance, who said "You know, I've got COVID and I should really go to the hospital, but IT COULD BANKRUPT ME." That's people who HAVE insurance. Forget UNINSURED. If you're uninsured, a band-aid at an urgent care clinic could bankrupt you.

[@scifirealism5943]

Yes

[@anthonydelfino6171]

too many won't get the time off work if they do have COVID... and to add onto this even more, if youre unconscious and you HAVE insurance, if the EMT takes you to the "wrong" hospital and it's "out of network" now you're on the hook for the thousands of dollars or more in medical expenses because you didn't have your emergency at a place more convenient to your approved hospitals

[@sambabisky4742]

In Canada the worse thing that happens if you need to go to the hospital is if there is an accident or any life threatening thing comes in while you are waiting they are triaged in first ahead of all others. So your sore shoulder or sprained ankle, will need to wait. I had my hand crushed in a mine accident 50 years ago, the security took me to the hospital, a few miles away. Reception asked me how bad is it, I could not take my glove off because of swelling, she said just sit there a Dr and Nurse came in a min. cut the glove off and took me to surgery. I had therapy for 6 months, cost, Nada.

[@roybatty5028]

CEO isn't deceased. He's out of network. Access denied.

[@Sacrypheyes]

before i watched sicko, i was thinking of trying my luck moving to the US. after i've seen it, and also after i've heard of some cases of people going under huge medical debts after an accident or whatnot in the US, and considering my existing medical conditions, I wouldn't want to live in the US even if someone paid me for it, because i know for sure i'd eventually get screwed by your healthcare system and i just can't afford it. the sad thing is, those videos with 5M view likely are still unknown to the vast majority of americans, and i wouldn't even be surprised if most of the viewers also live outside the US, meaning to this day, there's probably 90% of americans that have no actual idea how the rest of the world react when we learn about your absolutely insane healthcare system costs.

[@foskco87]

As a Canadian, it's not just the fact that there is no charge for care that I appreciate, it's also the fact that there is essentially zero paperwork involved. If you go to a hospital or clinic for treatment, you just give them your health number, they register you, you get treated, and you leave. End of transaction. There is no paperwork, no bills, no insurance documents, no copayments or deductibles. If your doctor says you need something, you get it, there is no random asshole in an office who gets to decide what care you can get.

[@RickRichard-s6t]

There is plenty of paperwork you get to fill out while waiting to die in the wait room of death not to mention the bill for the ambulance ride

[@pattivaillant2569]

@@RickRichard-s6t🤦🏽‍♀️

[@maggiedilettante2434]

Canadian here: I come from a working class family. Dad - blue collar mechanic working in a non unionized job. My mom: a dishwasher/cleaner. They had some savings but not much. Dad went through cancer treatments. He didn’t make it. Mom has been through a skin cancer situation that required surgery as well as uterine cancer that required her basement to be cleaned. Mom’s been in remission for nearly a year now. Guess what: she still has some meager savings and her house. The only thing she had to pay was the odd cab ride to an appointment. This is how it should be. Fighting cancer or any ailment is hard enough.

[@scifirealism5943]

My mom died in sickness and poverty because Medicaid was inefficient and other welfare programs in order to survive.

[@maggiedilettante2434]

@ that’s horrible. My heart goes out to you.

[@scifirealism5943]

@@maggiedilettante2434 thank you. I'm glad universal health care exists in other countries.

[@RickRichard-s6t]

Canadian here my friend just got cancer and has to fight in court just to get insurance to cover the cost of the drugs don’t make our system sound like a miracle

[@maggiedilettante2434]

@@RickRichard-s6t that never happened to my Dad, my Mom or the other friends or relatives who had cancer. Your comment doesn’t make sense, we have Phramacare. I don’t think you are Canadian - I think you are a misinformation troll.

[@DoubleOhTheG]

As a Canadian I have to say, the comments that I have seen on this channel and other forms of social media about their experiences with claims in America are absolutely horrifying. I'm sorry a lot of you have to go through this

[@HalfwayJac]

Thank you neighbor. It’s rough here.

[@grantjohnston7148]

It's heart breaking 💔

[@anthonydelfino6171]

yeah... we hate it but our politicians refuse to do anything to change it

[@tinyhomestead6023]

Thank you for your kind comment ❤❤❤❤

[@tinyhomestead6023]

@@anthonydelfino6171because that’s the way they get rich by the heath insurance companies bribing them…..oh, they use a different word….but it means the same thing.

[@bonniekerr4964]

As an American with Cherokee heritage, I can say the Indian Health System is a single payer system, right here in America. For citizens of a federally recognized tribe, living in areas with clinics and or an Indian hospital, it works. And with no out of pocket expense.

[@chengzhou8711]

Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was

[@corneliusantonius3108]

Once In a Lifetime: Talking Heads And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?" Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?" And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?" And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house" And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife" Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Water dissolving and water removing There is water at the bottom of the ocean Under the water, carry the water Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean Water dissolving and water removing Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, into the silent water Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?" You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?" And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?" Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, into the silent water Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, look where my hand was Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Same as it ever was Here a twister comes, here comes the twister Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was) Letting the days go by (same as it ever was, same as it ever was) Once in a lifetime, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

[@Professor__S]

Great... now im going to have that song in my head all day 😂

[@FriendlyFare]

@@corneliusantonius3108 Abandoning reading comments to go listen to watch Talking Heads...

[@andremadeira6916]

House of pain no doubt

[@suetrublu]

No. It's far far worse.

[@Eddie-gb3bn]

Being disgusted with the current healthcare system in America is step 1. uniting the left and right on this issue is step 2. Posting the faces of all the politicians that are financially benefiting from this corrupt system and applying the pressure day after day will be the only way anything will change.

[@lawrencecrocker4870]

The left and right arent politicially divided. The politicians are all on the same side. The side of the rich.

[@NighDarke]

​@@lawrencecrocker4870 Yep. And they keep us fighting with each other so we don't realize who the true enemy is and we all start coming after them.

[@Brian-xu9di]

Or giving Congress the same shit healthcare they want the rest of us peons to accept.

[@writerconsidered]

open secrets has all that information.

[@fefelarue2948]

The left has been talking about this for decades; we’re called Marxists and lunatics.

[@poptartmadison3216]

I've talked to some Canadian friends who were in shock. They knew American healthcare was way more expensive and it resulted in bankruptcies but didn't realize you could have healthcare insurance coverage but be outright denied for medical procedures or that insurance companies have authority over your doctor/hospital and literally have the final say over everything.

[@sinisterkitty8411]

We are like an abuse victim in a toxic relationship. We have been convinced by our abuser that there is no other life for us out there.

[@scifirealism5943]

Yes

[@anthonydelfino6171]

have you told them what happens if you're unconscious as a result of a medical emergency and EMTs take you to an out of network hospital? literally a situation where someone could do everything "right" and still get screwed over by our system

[@poptartmadison3216]

@@anthonydelfino6171 I've read of people that woke up from strokes/heart attacks wishing they'd died because the ambulance/stay was out of network and they owe tens of thousands of dollars. It seems to most other developed nations find it so unbelievable that they literally don't believe a country so developed/wealthy as the US could be so barbaric as to just let it's citizens die.

[@davidjohnson8273]

US government actually does pay out for health care. In fact on a per person basis the US government pays out more than any other country. Then the individual has to pay out even more in premiums to insurance. Then they have to pay out for the service. The service they end up with is 2nd class but the cost is double the next nearest.

[@ronwagoner8358]

It always breaks my heart that the American rebels were able to win the American Revolution!! Watched the doc "Sicko". It brought tears to my eyes, especially when the two first responders during 9/11 got healthcare from Cuba. That says it all.

[@TheTeresaPaul]

Kyle, I am Canadian and 1 year before COVID, I got pneumonia, and 1 of lungs collapsed. I was at home and my husband called an ambulance for me. I was taken to hospital and my husband came later in his car. By the time he got there, 1 hour later, I was already in the ICU with a chest tube. I spent 2 weeks in the ICU and 6 days in a regular hospital room. The most we paid was when my husband would come and visit me, it was $5 a day for parking. I tell this story to show that if you are REALLY sick up here, you will get care immediately. There are waiting times I won't sugarcoat that and sometimes they can be frustrating, but no matter who you are, you will get care, even if you have to wait. I am completely healed now, but it took a while. So I can't imagine trying to heal through all that AND worrying about how I would pay for it. With friendship I wish you and your viewers a Happy New Year. I will be watching you, and I truly hope that this next year will not be as bad as you or I think it might be. Cheers

[@RickRichard-s6t]

True Canadian who knows what’s up in the waiting room of death

[@SandraSchemmer]

Had a friend with a serious problem, hospitalized immediately, operated on twice, three weeks in hospital, excellent care Yea, CANADA,

[@NecroMancer84]

​@@RickRichard-s6tand true Americans know we wait too! And then pay out the ass! My mom who is 65 is having hip problems and can hardly walk, she has to wait 5 weeks before a doctor can see her. We got the worst of both worlds! It's not like Americans walk into a doctor office and suddenly have everyone's attention.

[@lightnindawn7710]

Thank you. Plz pray for us to be able to survive the horrors that are coming our way in the next 4 years & maybe longer.

[@sachadee.6104]

As far as I know : the ambulance ride is not included in the free universal healthcare. Not in my province of NB, it's C$300 or C$ 700 if you're from out of province. (In my case it's covered true an additional private plan, that also covers dental procedures.)

[@alexialu4224]

The thing that blew my mind these last days as an Italian is that Americans always say: "but in Universal Healthcare systems the waiting lists are extremely long". And then, because of what happened, I come to know about prior authorisation, which is basically added wait time for your treatment but only for middle class people and with an american dystopian touch to it, without any classification of urgency. There's just a person sitting at his desk in some gray building somewhere deciding if you get to be treated or not, knowing that their boss wants to be as strict as possibile... Some things in the US just don't make sense

[@CitizenPlane]

I have a massive scar on my head, because I could not get authorized for a biopsy for 4 years. They waited until the skin cancer tumor was huge to allow my doctor to do anything about it. But it could be worse. My step-dad died waiting for care for his rectal cancer. My dad and step-mom were saddled with over $100,000 in debt when she got cervical cancer. Everyone who isn't rich in America has experienced this, or knows someone who has. The insurance companies just spend a lot of the money they're stealing from us on propaganda campaigns to convince us that a better world is impossible.

[@johnkoch8566]

I've been sick since 2016. The system makes no sense if you care about sick people and want them healed, but it makes perfect sense if you care about shareholders and want them paid.

[@ravenoctober9936]

Just a small correction. Im low income and on medical assistance,(in the u.s) and i STILL have to deal with prior authorizations. So it's not just "middle class". Not like theres much middle class left here any more tho.

[@morganseppy5180]

The trick is to pay cash, and to be send a child to medical school. They also have lawyers or have them over for dinner. You don't need insurance or even a lot of money when you're connected. As always, it's who you know.

[@huntercoleherr]

Long lines doesn't make sense even if it is true. In the US, there isn't a line if you don't have insurance, or even if you do but have the wrong insurance. Or the right insurance. You'll wait forever.

[@kathyc2870]

I am middle class with good insurance through work, and when my autistic son got cancer, our lives went completely downhill.... because we couldnt work....... we needed to take him in for treatment. we are now desperate to stay afloat....

[@gremlinvibe]

I'm so sorry. That's heartbreaking 😢

[@uncomfortabletruth3831]

America, is not very sympathetic for reproduction and security ..

[@elbashar7589]

Try again for another kid.

[@SweetSkies478]

@@elbashar7589or not exploit the fundamental need for medical care🤡

[@hollywoodjaded]

@kathyc2870 I'm really sorry. I wish the best for your son.

[@enisredzepagic8823]

Whenever I would go to the US, I would first make a general overhaul of my health screening, not to mention the dental report. As if I would apply to NASA Space program.

[@cathyritchie2812]

I’m 🇨🇦. When I gave birth to my son, I had complications, including pre-eclampsia and paid $0 for my delivery and 4-day hospital stay. In the last year, I’ve had a serious of small health issues. As a result, have had 5 rounds of blood work, several ultrasounds, 3 x-rays, 5 GP visits and 2 specialist appointments. Cost-$0. I don’t know how Americans do it?!

[@Sqwivig]

We just die or become bankrupt.

[@saidibrahim5931]

in the US that would cost around 100k atleast

[@King_Dusty_Of_Pookytopia]

My best friend is Canadian and he says that government has a pay structure that incentivises hospitals to give more healthcare. And he is stunned how the American system works.

[@wfcoaker1398]

I'm a retired Canadian doctor, and thst is pure nonsense. Hospitals get an operatong budget, having patients in hospital is a drain on the budget. There is no incentive to keep patients in hospital if they don't need to be there.

[@sachadee.6104]

@@wfcoaker1398 thank you for debunking that fake'news'. Stuff like this is how the world is getting mad over nothing (bunch of lies).

[@robynjoan1778]

Thank you for telling people about Michael Moore's documentary "sicko". I have had this on DVD since 2009. It blew my mind the first time I saw it. And I have been a Registered Nurse for 39 years now.

[@hellebachmann8260]

I wonder what your tax money gives you. Weapons and wars? Here in Denmark our tax also pays for free education for all, fully free healhcare, one year paid after birth, 6 weeks of paid vacation by law. And when you are sick you are sick, for as long as it takes. Full coverage and no limits. Very few people abuse the system.

[@alexandreleblanc3816]

I had doctor friends who practiced in the US for a bit (I'm in Canada) but they all came back. I asked them why and they all said the same thing: the money was better in the US but dealing with insurance companies was such a drain on their lives that they just called it quits and came home.

[@manne4291]

Birth does not “go up to” 30K… I was billed 55K.. natural childbirth, no NICU.💸 ended up having to pay 12K out of pocket.

[@princemichael4708]

In Australia it's free

[@kabiam]

It never ends in The US. Wait until college.

[@ronbelanger4113]

So the free health nurse was not coming around every two weeks to check on mom and baby?

[@brianvickey5410]

I have spoken to 10 Canadians about their healthcare system as compared to the US.Here is what shocked me.They FEEL SORRY for us.

[@brycedery9596]

It's true we do, exploitation is never easy to watch.

[@Torian1o1]

Most of my friends (Dutch) feel sorry for you too. Not trying to rub it in. We're genuinely sorry for you. Even more so when we hear Americans talking about how the US is the best country in the world because 'bIg MiLiTaRy'. I consider it a point of pride if a country doesn't have a big military but *actually* provides its citizens a high standard of living. Shows you where the priorities are.

[@BenBurley-o4o]

Australian health care is better than America's and our health care system is absolutely shite.

[@mmmm-t6h1v]

from the netherlands had bus hitting me from my bike had broken back ,broken hip, 8 ribs broken stomich ruptere ,cut spleen. was 6 weeks in hospital ad that moment homeless, never paid a dime , and was transported in helicopter to another city

[@Enclave.]

I'm Canadian, I severely dislocated my knee a few years ago. Ambulance, emergency room, had to get sedated and pain killers, I was in for a few hours. Total cost to me as I recall about $50 and the payment was for the aluminum crutches that I went home with. I have the option to move to the USA, I refuse to transfer there though because I don't want to lose my healthcare system.

[@posapie]

I live in an Asian country where we have a lot of tourists. A large percentage of those are Medical Tourists. Americans who fly here for surgery. This is how bad it has become.

[@agathajadwiszczok3503]

Thailand, I assume

[@gordonbradley3241]

How can Americans live like this ?

[@ronbelanger4113]

Their education system starts them off stupid.

[@JackWaits-y8u]

Its not much of a life, but an existence.

[@RobertWilson-jb4xw]

Uk here , I can’t add anymore to what’s been said here except I’m thankful for the NHS .

[@twofoursevenbeauty]

🙏🏾

[@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn]

If Farage becomes PM the NHS is dead!

[@oksanaandriyak5001]

Thank you Kyle for talking about this! We need to be outside protesting ! Need to organize it’s unacceptable

[@sinisterkitty8411]

I hope this doesn't just languish in apathy like everything else here.

[@robertallan4916]

I am from the UK. I lived in the US (University research post). I got ill. It was cheaper for me to fly to the UK for treatment than to get it in the US.

[@susanfletcher3929]

Wow! I’m literally laughing with embarrassment at how pathetic your healthcare experience was over here. The majority of us Americans are hugely embarrassed by our healthcare system

[@emmamarier7042]

​@@susanfletcher3929No disrespect, but I doubt it's the majority. If it were the majority, you guys would change it. A majority voted for Trump, so 🤷‍♀️

[@susanfletcher3929]

@@emmamarier7042 No, it’s definitely the majority. The reason it’s so hard to change is corporate lobbyists in DC pay all the politicians to keep the status quo. It’s a super fucked up system. Have you watched Breaking Bad?

[@jinglejazz7537]

I watched the story about not affording insulin, price went from $15.00 to over $500 dollars. unbelievable. how is that even legal. In a first world country. OUTRAGES. I read that when a drug patent expires in Canada that gov. regulations say it must become a generic drug. eg. a drug that costs. $60 now becomes generic, and sells for $15.00, its covered by most if not all health plans, or paid for by the social safety net. In the USA, after the patent expires, they take it off the market and replace it with another drug at a higher price. THAT IS JUST WRONG! That's how it works in all 1st world countries, except the USA. UNBELIEVABLE.