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  In the US we also often have to wait for non-life threatening conditions. It's taken me weeks or months to be seen for different issues. After all, private healthcare providers make more profit by keeping staffing to an absolute bare minimum, and (especially in smaller cities) you rarely have real "competition"/choice between providers.
context: And a whole bunch of conservative meaniehead jerks are trying to get Canada doing the same shit. By intentionally fucking up our public Healthcare.
  Fuck "starve the beast" libertarianism >
  
  It's a huge talking point for conservative Americans to say that, while our healthcare system is too expensive, the one in Canada is somehow killing people. Nevermind the fact that Canadians are just by the books healthier than Americans. >
  
  Well, in Canada our life expectancy is higher, we have a much lower infant mortality rate, and nobody has to fear going bankrupt over medical bills, but our system isn’t perfect.  Unless your condition is life-threatening, you’re probably going to be waiting awhile for treatment.  I remember around 2008 or so, the GOP were trying to claim that Canada had ”death panels”, where a small group of people decide if a person would live or die.  This has never been true, it’s a horrific, inhuman idea, and the GOP are loathsome scumbags for trying to scare people into voting against their own best interest like that. >
  
  In the US they have those too: it's the small group of people deciding that insulin shouldn't be paid for by tax dollars, for instance