Socialist Canadian Healthcare Fails

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Originally Posted by Papewaio

Well I've just been to the dentist to have a tooth that was split in half repaired.

So lets play: How much did it cost?

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Lets see - last dental emergancy anyone in my family had was a chipped tooth and that only cost us $185 dollars.

So a split tooth would be significantly more in the United States.

So in your neck of the world - I would think it cost a very minimum amount, depending if you went to private care off of insurance.

$180 Australian. for repairing a tooth that was split in half and was borderline being a root canal job... just by the skin of my teeth not being so. :laugh4:

And $81 back from private health care... it would have been more if the dentist was a preferred choice of the fund.

so $99 for repairing the tooth. ~:)

Or $72 US / $84 Canadian or 42 Pounds.

Mine was free. ~:)

Damn those socialists!

You're a student. Wait until you stop being one, then the pain of the dentist is hardly over when he stops in your mouth. That's if you can get an NHS dentist of course...

Personally I'd not trust them as far as I can throw them. One "senior" one in hospital wrote a patient up for 8g paracetamol per day... twice the reccommended limit. Pah, failed doctors the lot of them... ~;)

~:smoking:

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Originally Posted by JAG

Mine was free. ~:)

Damn those socialists!

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Students always get discounts... do you get paid to go to Uni... a lot of Aussies do...

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Originally Posted by Watchman

Right. Illegal immigrants will be the downfall of your civilization. Sure thing massa. Mesa believe you.

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You have no right to take that tone. Calling someone a slave-holder, or suggesting that they behave as if a slave-holder cannot be passed off as "joking".

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Originally Posted by Watchman

Right. Illegal immigrants will be the downfall of your civilization. Sure thing massa. Mesa believe you.

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It was the downfall of the Roman empire wasnt it?~;p

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Originally Posted by Xiahou

It was the downfall of the Roman empire wasnt it?~;p

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...no.

Sorry, had to dredge this up.

Just read today that prior to Canada moving to socialized healthcare in 1968, nearly 1/3 of the population was uninsured and the #1 cause of bankruptcy was health costs due to catastrophic illness.

The article also said that healthcare costs due to catastrophic illness are the #2 cause of bankruptcy in the US today.

One quick article I found.
http://www.bankruptcycanada.com/blog/canadian-and-us-bankruptcy-rates

Anyone have any figures of how much those bankruptcies cost the US?