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1000 Reasons not to vote for GW
Yander:
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--- Quote from: Yander on August 27, 2004, 09:35:10 am ---I agree with hulkster about Triumph the insult Dog.
As far as hockey goes I am a big fan and if it weren't for hockey night in canada there would be nowhere good to watch the red wings. I have nothing against canada accept you have free health care but because of it your health care system is just as jacked up as ours. I know a man who lived in canda who broke his neck and was losing the feeling in his right hand. He was going to have to wait 2-3 weeks just to get x-rays in canada. Luckily his wife worked at a hospital in detroit and kept her health insurance.
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Dude, no offense, but that is absolute rubbish. I worked in a hospital for 10 years here, my wife was an emergency room nurse for 14 years, and some of our best friends are doctors and lawyers. If someone broke his neck they would have him in that x-ray room so fast it would make his neck snap (ha ha).
Remember we DO have lawyers here, and I can assure you that if someone had to wait weeks to get an xray on a broken neck he would sue the living hell out the emergency room, the staff, the doctors and the CEO of the corporation. I think your "source" on this story is pulling your leg. Did he tell you we live in igloos and drive around snow dogs? Or maybe told you we all say eh every other word and talk about nothing but the playoffs? I mean, really, that's the kind of nonsense I hear on vacation: "I hear you guys just got color tv's up there in Canada!"
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Yeah my post was worded wrong. They didn't know he had a broken neck it just hurt and he was losing the felling in his hand. The hospital told him it was going to take 2-3 weeks to see a radiologist.
I live in Michigan, I go to canada often I know you don't live in igloos drinking molsen while watching hockey and saying eh. I was just pointing your health care system isn't as perfect as it is made out to be.
Zakk:
Ah, that makes more sense. Yeah our waiting periods for non life-threatening injuries are quite silly. Pinched nerves and things like that are sometimes fluffed off. My intention wasn't to defend our health care system (hell I make money, I'd pay for better/faster service), but to dispell the illusion that we would let a guy walk around with a broken neck for weeks. If you'd even seen our guys in action on a trauma case, you would be impressed. It's the customer service that sucks. They'll patch you back together just fine, just don't expect a "thank you, come again!"
(You're more likely to get a "now don't be so stupid next time you idiot, you almost killed yourself, and even worse, you ruined my coffee break!!") :)
DrewKaree:
I see both sides of the issue commented on here, so mebbe this may prove interesting to some...click it.
Oh, and it has nothing to do with Canadian health care, eh.
Goz:
Drew,
Thanks for the link and I am glad its not aboot the Canadians
;D
-Goz
GGKoul:
Take Off You Hoser!