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There are lots of sick people who want to know how much their treatment options cost. Not just Americans, but Canadians as well (I know some). When you have a

There are lots of sick people who want to know how much their treatment options cost. Not just Americans, but Canadians as well (I know some). When you have a poorly understood illness that is killing you you have two choices: pay out of pocket or die. It doesn't matter if your country has universal health care or not because treatments will not be covered until they go through a lengthy (decades) approval process. If your illness is controversial then it will be even longer. It doesn't harm anyone to publish real healthcare prices. Please do not fight something that will harm no one. This will benefit some of the most neglected people in society.

braythwayt 7y ago
I have empathy for where you're coming from, but to me it feel like the following: Imagine that in America, husbands are allowed to beat their wives, and the government proposes a law that they may not use a stick with a girth bigger than their thumb. Alice says, "This is insane. Husbands are not allowed to beat their wives in Canada, that is the correct solution." And then Bob says, "Well, that's just unrealistic here, so please do not undermine our efforts to make things better for wives by limiting how hard they can be beaten."
- wavepruner 7y ago
  Did you read my entire post? Universal health care does not solve the problem. Canadians that have my illness have just as much difficulty as I do. I swear you kinds of healthy people do not even read/listen to the words that I and other crippled people say. Your analogy is not even remotely appropriate. And how is open pricing incompatible with universal health care? Is your ideology so important to you that you will fight such an innocuous change?
  - TurkishPoptart 7y ago
    I just wanted to say that your original post made plenty sense, and that I agree. And I found parent's wife-beating analogy quite confusing and unrelated.

braythwayt 7y ago

I have empathy for where you're coming from, but to me it feel like the following: Imagine that in America, husbands are allowed to beat their wives, and the government proposes a law that they may not use a stick with a girth bigger than their thumb. Alice says, "This is insane. Husbands are not allowed to beat their wives in Canada, that is the correct solution." And then Bob says, "Well, that's just unrealistic here, so please do not undermine our efforts to make things better for wives by limiting how hard they can be beaten."

wavepruner 7y ago
Did you read my entire post? Universal health care does not solve the problem. Canadians that have my illness have just as much difficulty as I do. I swear you kinds of healthy people do not even read/listen to the words that I and other crippled people say. Your analogy is not even remotely appropriate. And how is open pricing incompatible with universal health care? Is your ideology so important to you that you will fight such an innocuous change?
- TurkishPoptart 7y ago
  I just wanted to say that your original post made plenty sense, and that I agree. And I found parent's wife-beating analogy quite confusing and unrelated.