Being Canadian, there's really no difference in my mind between the two systems. Ours is government run, paid for by our tax dollars, you can get additional coverage from other insurance companies to cover more. But for the most part, you can walk into a doctors office, get a check up, walk out, free of charge because your taxes for that year/month will probably cover it. Yeah its something Canadians are proud to have but its system thats there when you need it and paying for it when you don't.
When I lived in Ohio, I thought that the health system was "okay" until I needed a doctor. Then I got taken over a chair and shown who the boss was. Its more for profit than for health and it is a business to insurance companies. I had a friend who apparently was charged for a filling but never got one. Another example of people taking advantage of the system. Yeah I probably was screwed over because I was not an american citizen at the time but there were alot of hoops to jump through before I could get anything worked on. Its a system so long broke that fixing it now would only add more bandaids to it. IMO, as said above, that no matter what you try to do, someone is going to bitch about it, there's a very small middle ground.
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