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Union Presentation: US vs. Canada Healthcare



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Short film comparing US healthcare to Canadian healthcare. Includes brief history about each system.


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us just makes money ... ( 1 month ago by robotdrawer)
us just makes money off of health care so theres no reason to get rid if it for them
These right at the ... ( 1 month ago by algonquin91)
These right at the end should not just be for Americans, but for every human being in the world.
I know how the world works.
But I hate the fact that people can think "you're not in my country, you don't deserve the rights that I have."
sam:I don't ... ( 1 month ago by GenevaPilgrim)
sam:I don't understand how YOU cannot see that if we all had access to heatlth plans nationally that prices would go down because ins. Co. would be competing for your business. Righ now they don't have to. If you live in MO you can only shop in MO so MO healthcare costs stay high. And it is a flat out lie to say that Canadians prefer their plan & do not want privatized health insurance. You find it in their blogs, in their videos & in their studies. there are a limited few who actually like it.
rit:I wondered ... ( 1 month ago by GenevaPilgrim)
rit:I wondered about that. A good friend of ours just graduated from med school and he said that if they make healthcare universal here he will wiether move to another country to practice or just quit altogether because why should he work such long and crazy hours only to make (then) what he can make doing a Monday-Friday job. His student loans alone are about $1400 a month-more than his house! I will say one thing-if we lower the amount doctors make-we have to lower their cost for education.
IF we had had ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
IF we had had access to health care plans nationally.... well the point is we DONT and even those of us who do sometimes have to battle our health insurance plans so they can cover. We currently spend more money per patient than anyone else yet everyone is not covered. I've been to Canada and although they admit their plan is not perfect they don't seem to want to trade it in for ours. The Brits will complain about their NHS but are thankful they don't have our system.
Did your friend ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
Did your friend become a doctor because he wanted to treat people or because he wanted to become rich? You should worry less about the doctor (they still make good money in developed countries where healthcare is universal) and worry a little more about the lower middle class which earn to much to qualify for state programs but don't make enough to pay for their healthcare. Or those who don't qualify for most healthcare policies b/c of pre-existing conditions and live worrying everyday.
sam:he did it to ... ( 1 month ago by GenevaPilgrim)
sam:he did it to help people, but he hasn't had a day off in three weeks and his family would like to do more family activities. He works at a hospital in a private practice that cares for hospitalized patients and the hours are horrible, but he does it because he likes the job-but he pays 1400 a mo in education costs. he makes about $110,000 a yr. But once you factor in higher taxes, education, and insurance he doesn't make all that much for a family of four.
sam: I am lower ... ( 1 month ago by GenevaPilgrim)
sam: I am lower middle class & we pay $430 a mo. for my husband's work plan & I don't complain-EVER. I don't want a state program. This summer our gas got shut off for 3 mos. I didn't go running to get my gas paid by LIHEAP we took cold showers & ate food from the microwave. But I digress, there are less & less of us hard-working americans who aren't looking for a handout. My mother has a pre-existing condition & she paid $600 a mo to MO state healthcare 1 year until she qualified for medicaid.
sam, I totally ... ( 1 month ago by ritamalik)
sam, I totally disagree with you! Your view on healthcare is not only unfair to the doctors and treats them as if they are slaves of society and owe people something just because they chose this profession but your approach is completely impractical! In socialist Finland doctors make no more money than the teachers even though the teachers had to study far less, work far shorter hours, don't have the responsibility of life and death on their shoulders and have 3 month of holidays!
Doctors don't have ... ( 1 month ago by ritamalik)
Doctors don't have such luxury and get the same money as "government employees"! Don't you think it is only fair if their hard work should worth their while? You might blabber your idealistic talking points about whether they became a doctor to become rich or to help people. First of all these two things are not mutually exclusive. But most important of all is that such moralistic nonsense doesn't make a difference in producing human incentive to get the work done!
What ever a ... ( 1 month ago by ritamalik)
What ever a person's motive is to study +7 years and work so hard is non of our business, the fact is that anywhere were the doctors don't make a good enough money many would not find it worth their while to spend so much time and energy to study so long and go on night shifts and work their asses off! Now you in your silly idealistic little world might not care if those who have any other motive than to be Mother Theresa and cure the sick and needy to not go into medicine business!
Fine! Only accept ... ( 1 month ago by ritamalik)
Fine! Only accept the "ideologically pure" ones into your system! But then don't complain when you open your eyes and see that your system is critically understaffed and only those who had nothing better to do with their brains (i.e. not the smartest people around) ended up being your only doctors! In Finland I could see that with my own eyes! Doctors mostly were not so good!They were also too few to handle the volume of patients in that little country!
Geneva: I ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
Geneva: I understand that a doctor's job isn't easy, especially during the early part of their career when they have to pay ridiculous college loans. But you didn't understand the point I was trying to make which was that if he was living in a country with universal healthcare his standard of living would not be jeopardized.
Geneva: You on the ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
Geneva: You on the other hand just described the hardships you went through because of the high cost of healthcare. Why do people consider free healthcare a handout? Do you think the road you drive on paid with federal taxes is a handout? Do you think the public schools our children go to at no cost are a handout? Do you think the US Postal Service (govt owned) is a handout?
rita: (1) ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
rita: (1) Considering the favorite videos you have on your channel I am not surprised at all to read your response to my comment. First of all, remember that healthcare can be made available to 100% of citizens in many different ways and nowhere have I proposed to make doctor's govt employees making as much as teachers. The fact that doctors must go to school for 8 years + residency in the US is ridiculous considering the 4 years they force them to waste in u-grad.
Now that you have ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
Now that you have spent time arguing in favor of doctors I urge you to consider those who lack healthcare in the US - I blame the politicians who are petrified to be labeled as "socialist" - a word which has been manipulated so much over the past 150 years and has thus lost all objective meaning. It is not moralistic nonsense or idealistic to demand healthcare coverage for all considering we are the only developed country without it.
(3) - you like to ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
(3) - you like to talk about fairness but you know what is really unfair: for Geneva's mother (read her comment to me) to have to may $600/month for healthcare until she could qualify for medicaid because her government cannot provide her with a basic need - affordable healthcare service.
samo:me getting ... ( 1 month ago by GenevaPilgrim)
samo:me getting behind on my gas bill had nothing to do w/ the cost of my health care. It had everything to do with my irresponsibility but I won't go into that...But I could have expected the gov't to help me through LIHEAP because I "fell on hard times" but the fact is I didn't & neither do most of the people who apply for LIHEAP-my mother worked for them-I know! I consider it a gov't handout when people can afford healthcare, but don't like to pay it & many people that R yelling for it can.
Geneva: I'm not ... ( 1 month ago by samot8728)
Geneva: I'm not advocating for the government to step in and cover all of our needs, I simply believe there are certain services the government should make sure every person has access to. Anyone who is not wealthy in America and lacks healthcare cannot afford to get sick. Many of the jobs poor people get don't offer healthcare coverage and indep. healthcare plans are often not affordable. Do you think the 40+ million w/o healthcare simply choose to not get it?
actually... we dont ( 1 month ago by robertyarom)
actually... we dont
Maybe not you, but ... ( 1 month ago by rjfrjf65)
Maybe not you, but there are plenty who do. I have relatives who live in Buffalo and Detroit, and they see plenty of Canadians come in to get surgeries.
American system ... ( 4 weeks ago by TAKENnameARGH)
American system isn't really a system at all, since they just let greedy companies to suck people dry.
ya i hear alot of ... ( 2 weeks ago by cartercarter1)
ya i hear alot of women end up having there babies on the steets couse they cant aford to have a baby in the hospital in the us
and the good thing ... ( 1 day ago by klrocker91)
and the good thing about America's health care system is that u cannot be denied health treatment regardless of your ability to pay for the care



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