Rant The hypocrisy of Jobs

[Izack]

Seriously? You mean you don't have people in Canada flying to other countries and paying for treatment that they can get in Canada but only after a long wait?

This happens all the time. If you have the $$, may as well drive/fly down to the States and pay to have it done in a clinic, instead of wait for the sluggish public system to churn you through. I would definitely do that if I had the money, if it could cost my life to wait for medicare. Won't ever profess to being a stoic.

 

[garyw]

This happens all the time. If you have the $$, may as well drive/fly down to the States and pay to have it done in a clinic, instead of wait for the sluggish public system to churn you through. I would definitely do that if I had the money, if it could cost my life to wait for medicare. Won't ever profess to being a stoic.

And thats exactly my point. Turbinator cannot say that Canadas healthcare system isn't two-tiered if people are both flying to other countries for treatment and flying into Canada for treatment.

In fact, this article discusses that very point -> http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/3/19.full

Canada's healthcare system is as multi-tiered as any other countries.

 

[Izack]

I don't think it's quite applicable here, because whenever someone skips the public system, that's one step in the line closer to treatment for someone else whose only hope is in medicare. The problem is when people come here and abuse medicare, or people who for example smoked a pack a day all their lives and are now wasting public time and money on hopeless treatment for lung cancer. That's why I can't agree that what Jobs did was acceptable.

 

[jedidia]

Of course, this would mean a private jet being kept on standby at taxpayers expense but it is the fairest system.

Wait... You're saying you don't have that? Even switzerland has that, plus a squadron of copters for fast rescue. Of course the second wouldn't be so practical for the us, considering the size, but you seriously don't have a jet on standby for emergency relocation?

If i needed emergency transport from bosnia to switzerland, i could have the pickup in sarajevo this afternoon, and i'd have the copter hop from airport to hospital included. And it isn't even government funded, they exist on insurance money and public donations. Just in case you're wondering, the insurance is voluntary and costs a ridicoulus 40 bucks a year, and gives you full access to to pickup by helicopter in areas a car can't get to, and emergency transport from anywhere in the world to switzerland. I can't believe the us doesn't even have emergency relocation within their own borders.

 

[garyw]

We don't have jets on standby but we do have a fleet of medical couriers that take everything from blood to oragns all across the country. We do have medical helicopters for most cities but they are largely sponsered/volunteer/charity funded.