That's garbage man. Canada's average wait time for surgery is more than 18 weeks I promise. Three months for MRIs is realistic though. If your wife's sister got her surgery in 4 months it was probably deemed "urgent". France, Norway, and Denmark all have decent healthcare, but those guys are paying half their income or more, and almost NO medical/bio innovations come out of there. Whenever the government gets involved in providing something, the price goes up and the quality goes down. We need something which addresses the costs of health care. Subsidizing part of med school debt? Importing more doctors( and not ones from Africa, the Carribean, or Belize)? Tort reform? All the above?
Whats been planted in your head is the boogey man that even the notion of socialism or government can't run any- thing surrenders families budgets over to middleman health care insurance companies. I don't care what name you give it, lower my premiums and my employers by any means necessary.
I live in Belgium and I only commented on this thread because I was at a dinner party last week where this woman who just gave birth said she found it outrageous it costs 1K to give birth in a hospital. How are poor people supposed to pay for this she said? Don't know on policy concerning threatment of foreigners or tourists, not in my country nor in other European countries as they can differ quite a lot among each other. Ofcource nothing is free, the cheap healthcare comes with a price like very high taxes. Then again we don't have capital gain taxes just to point out there are many sides to the story and wheter or not one would be better of living in Spain, Belgium, Thailand or the US pretty much depends on ones personal situation I would think.
When kids are young they're inexpensive. Watch what happens as they get older and get involved in more activities. Costs will increase dramatically. I'm speaking from experience. I have a 10 year old and 13 year old. It also depends on what kind of experiences you want your kids to have. I want mine to experience art, music, science and the world at the highest educational levels possible. That costs money. My younger daughter has a learning disability. She needs tutors. That costs money. Part of her therapy is dance and music lessons. That costs money. My older daughter is a great soccer player and plays on a club team that travels to tournaments. That costs money. And on and on...
When the private sector fucks up you can either choose a different company and/or sue the company that caused the harm. When the goverment fucks up, you have no other choice and you are not allowed to sue.
I didn't say that. Its just that our overly intrusive, bloated, incompetent federal government fucks up nearly everything they get get involved with, and they fuck it more thoroughly and at a higher cost to tax payers than the private sector.