Actually one thing I found a bit messed about Sicko was how well he and his family pumped up Canada's health system.... short waits? Sure.... where the hell were they again? Not where I live, that's for sure.
But it did touch base on a lot of interesting aspects, from France's health and education systems, to how the Suspected Terrorists in Cuba are getting free health care at US tax payer's expenses, to how some hospitals will put you in a cab and drop you off down "Skid Row" if you have no money or health insurance in the US. (They showed an old lady on a security cam being hauled out of a cab down the road form the hospital, still with an IV attached to her and in a hospital gown, walking down the street delirious.)
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Praxius, I have experienced our health care system for close to fifty years, in four provinces. First with our children, and later my wife and I. The anecdote about the lady and the IV and the taxicab did not happen in this country or it would have been headlines in every paper in the country. Our system has some warts to be sure but it is still one of the best systems in the world. I will pump up our system whenever I get a chance because it is among the best.
