Canadian Premier Comes To USA For Surgery

Not according to kassz:

Translation:

 

because US healthcare is the best by far...for millionaires, presidents, politicians, celebrities. For the remaining 98% of the US and Canadian population Universal Healthcare gives a much better bang for the buck.

 

Don't confuse obamacare and even canadian healthcare with properly implemented Universal Healthcare that I was talking about.

 

I wasn't aware of a "properly implemented Universal Healthcare" bill in the works.

Please, do tell...

 

you're absolutely right, there is not any. But this thread is not about a US healthcare bill, it's about Canadian Premier coming to the US for surgery. And he does it because US healthcare is the best for 1% of the world's population while Canadian healthcare (imperfect as it may be and far from the best implementation of Universal healthcare) works much better for the remaining 99% of the world.

 

Cool, that puts me in the top 2%.

 

98%, seriously? Where in the world did you come up with that?

I would like to see a link.

 

Wow, that puts me in the top 1%. I'm an elitist and didn't even know it.

Meanwhile, back in reality. I was thinking that only about 15% of the LEGAL US population did not have health insurance. Meaning 85% are more or less happy with they have.

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Wow, that puts me in the top 1%. I'm an elitist and didn't even know it.
How can you be so sure? How can you possibly know that you are getting a bigger bang for the buck than a canadian/french/italian dude with education, income, family and job comparable to yours. All objective data point otherwise, you pay more and get less.

Meanwhile, back in reality. I was thinking that only about 15% of the LEGAL US population did not have health insurance. Meaning 85% are more or less happy with they have.
That's the essence of the problem, in countries with reasonably well managed Universal Healthcare 100% of the legal population are "more or less happy with what they have" but they pay on average 30-50% less than the average american taxpayer and they on average get a little more out of it.