Reply #65: The thing is ...

[NanceGreggs]

This idiot lives in Canada (as do I), and he is NOT advocating that universal health care be abolished; simply that he be permitted to buy private insurance as a personal alternative.

I don't know what he thinks that would accomplish. A private insurer would have NO SWAY in getting one of their insured to the front of the line for any procedure. The medical provision system here is just not set up that way.

Fees for an MRI (Like ALL fees for medical services) are set, so even if his insurer was willing to pay an additional or higher fee (ha, fat chance!) to get their insureds to 'the front of the line', such monies wouldn't and couldn't be accepted.

So I really don't understand what this guy thinks having private insurance in a universal healthcare environment would achieve. He just sounds like one of those people who thinks that if he throws enough money around, he will get a better deal than everyone else.

Unfortunately for Mr. Jerkoff here, in our healthcare system, his willingness to spend more money won't get him anything more than that which every other patient gets.