Reply #67: Canadian health care is wonderful.

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My own experience didn't have a happy ending, but the doctors did everything they could, and they kept it from being much worse for all of us.

We've still got our problems, though. My own favorite gripe is availability. Being able to afford health care doesn't help much when your government-funded family doctor only gets paid to work a half day a week, and all the specialists and imaging clinics have waiting lists stretching for months, if not years (try telling a hospital resident that, by the way, and there's a strong chance they won't believe you). Only ER has the ability to provide or arrange for immediate care, and by the time you go to them it may already be too late. I don't know if it's as big an issue stateside, but I gather doctors make more money down there, so maybe not.