Life Under Socialized Medicine in Canada
ByIn the following video, Steven Crowder goes undercover to investigate how it’s like to be treated by the Canadian health care system.
To the socialists viewing this: Yes, I know, I know, private insurance denies care to people as well, but –
1. Socialized medicine is worse.
2. If socialized medicine denies health care to people, why bother with it? Because…
3. …it leads to the usual avalanche of negative side-effects of socialism. One of which is that the…
4. …middle class and poor will get stuck with socialized crap-care, while only the rich would be able to afford quality private care. Go equality!
And yes, I know the current bill up for vote today does not instill single payer socialized medicine, but it’s a stepping stone to that end because it puts such restrictions on private insurance, the private industry is likely to collapse in years to come. Just ask Obama!
12 Comments
March 21st, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Thanks for this video. It was very informative and answered a lot of questions that I had. And it was also quite hilarious. Thanks.
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:58 am
This health-care bill will kills job growth, raise taxes, lower care access and kill future medical innovation in medicines and medical equipment.
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Wow! If you think health insurance costs to much now … wait till it’s FREE and then see how much it will cost you. Thanks for the info.
March 27th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
I am glad I came across your website because I would like to set the record straight. THIS IS ALL LIES AND EXAGGERATED BULLCRAP!!! I am born and raised Canadian. My American husband lived and worked in Canada for 10 years, and we have recently move to the USA. We both have FIRST HAND knowledge of and experience with BOTH health care systems and we will both tell you that, without a doubt, Canadas health care system – even if it’s not perfect – is FAR SUPERIOR.
We are constantly shocked and disgusted with the MYTHS and LIES that Americans spread about Canada’s health care in the fear-mongering attempts to discredit real, much-needed REFORM in the US. This video is a JOKE. You can travel Canada far and wide, and you may find people who criticize aspects of our health care, but you will be hard pressed to find anyone who would ever give it up in favour of the insane, profit-driven US system, esp if they have had experience with it. The US system accounts of 60% of the US bankrupcies and tens of thousands of deaths each year due to lack of health care insurace (dropped or denied coverege). NOBODY IS DENIED COVERAGE IN CANADA – that is FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People do NOT die on wait lists in Canada anymore than a person dies on a wait list for an organ donor in the US.
I have MANY family and friends who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases, cancer, etc. and they have ALL received top-notch quality care. In fact, independent studies show that Canadians have a higher life expectancy that Americans overall, even when it comes to many types of cancer.
We have world-class hospitals, world-class doctors, and amazing research and development at our university hospitals.
Unless you have LIVED in Canada, you are NOT an authority to comment on our health care system, so STOP SPREADING LIES ABOUT CANADA’S HEALTH CARE!!!
March 27th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Oh, and by the way, if the facts were correct you would know that Canada’s health care is not actually “gov’t run” – it is 70% funded by the gov’t, and 30% funded by the private sector, but it is 100% delivered by the private sector. Furthermore, the Canadian gov’t spends less, per capita, on health care than the US gov’t.
Besides, why do you people only compare to Canada’s system. While better than the US system without a doubt (what is the point of having quality doctors, hosptials, etc. if nobody can afford it), why don’t you people look at the rest of the industrialized world that has some sort of universal coverage – Germany, France, etc. They have systems that are very admirable and, again, somethign their people would NEVER trade for the US-style profit-driven system that lets health insurance CEOs make millions of dollars while Americans die or go bankrupt.
March 27th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
While I’m here….the US is one of the LEAST socialist country on earth, and even Obama won’t be able make it as socialist as the countries in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc.
Yet ask people in those countries if they are happy, and they will say YES! Ask them if they think they have a good quality of life and they will say YES! There is a much smaller gap between rich and poor in those countries compared to the US.
So – you’re right – PURE SOCIALISM does not work, but neither does PURE CAPITALISM! IT has to be the right mixture of a Capitalist society with social programs and social saftey nets. Human beings are naturally greedy – we’ve already seen it with the recent economic collapse. Pure socialism breeds laziness, pure capitalism breeds greed.
And, those of you who knock Europe as if they are stuck in the dark ages – have you ever even LEFT the US? I suggest you grab a passport and travel the world because even if the US does a lot of things right, doesn’t mean the US can’t stand to learn a thing or two from other countries.
March 27th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
That’s great news, but he shouldn’t be given the opportunity to even try.
Great for them. They have more of the poor and less of the rich, but at least they’re equal.
Humans are greedy, and government enables them to be that way even more… “we’ve already seen it with the recent economic collapse.”
Just “pure” socialism you think? Socialism breeds laziness, and greed. What’s “pure” socialism anyway?
Straw-men are easy!
March 27th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Government funding and heavy regulation is effectively government run.
Straw-men are still easy!
Without a doubt in the mind of a socialist.
The vast majority of people can afford it.
The health insurance industry is no more profitable nor highly paid than an average industry. You just hate the idea of people making money.
March 27th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
If you hate lies so much, why do you spread them about the U.S. health care system? The deaths due to lack of health care insurance in the U.S. is a bogus statistic. The U.S. has life expectancies greater than Canada for many types of cancers as well. And overall life expectancy is of little use when trying to compare health care quality. The U.S. has a greater obesity rate, car accident rate, and racial diversity than Canada. All those factors contribute greatly to reducing the U.S. life expectancy and have nothing to do with quality of health care. Citing life expectancy as indication that health care in the U.S. is bad is pure propaganda.
April 7th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
… and this was nothing compared with the “super” quality of the “Medical Power” south of Key West.. only one difference, there are no private anything anywhere, so you’re stuck. I lived there. If you were my enemy I wouldn’t wish you that.
Government taking over of anything is always the same.
April 16th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
“4. …middle class and poor will get stuck with socialized crap-care, while only the rich would be able to afford quality private care. Go equality!”
Are you kidding? That is how it is now! The rich get all the medical care they want, while those without money get none. My job does not give me insurance coverage and I am the manager! If something happens to me and I have to go to the hospital I will be even more financially screwed than I already am. I will be stuck paying the debt for YEARS! I would take your “crap Care” over no care any day!
P.s. My friend has required medical attention twice while vacationing in Canada. Both times he was in front of a doctor getting help within 15 minutes. Then sent on his way with a smile. When I actually had health care with scheduled appointments I still waited 30 – 60 minutes to see a doctor. And the ER has never been faster than 1.5 hours of waiting.
April 16th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Why aren’t you buying your own medical insurance? Are you waiting for someone else to pay for it? Too expensive? Oh, I forgot, in a system where the government is already responsible for 50% of medical coverage, costs are high, and since Obamacare went into effect with more government meddling, costs are on hyper over drive. Let’s wait and see what happens when the government has total control of the medical system.
P.S. I know a guy who knows this guy who went to a Canadian doctor and died right after. And I also know a guy who knows this guy who went to a doctor in the U.S. and lived. Ah indeed, the wonders of anecdotal evidence! Neither system is all bad or all good.