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There goes my plan to flee to Canada once things go south.
by avip 7y ago
There goes my plan to flee to Canada once things go south.
- pkaye 7y agoSo when things go south, you go north?
- avip 7y agoCanada is a hefty, relatively normative, English-speaking country, I always assumed it'll be the obvious temp. shelter in hard times.
- pkaye 7y agoI just meant it as a joke of south vs north.
- munk-a 7y agoIs this why US healthcare is so terrible - there's an assumption that if things get really bad you can just head up north into Canada? Why not just fix your country - Canada isn't a big country and it provides well for its population, but those services wouldn't hold up under pressure from large numbers of Americans.
- avip 7y ago"my country" is not the US. Fixing a country is very difficult. I've long accepted that "fixing my country" is not something I can do. Grabbing my kids and hopping on a plane, otoh, is fairly easy. (as to your question - no)
- reaperducer 7y agoCalm down. It's just a cultural cliche holdover from the Vietnam War when draft dodgers ran to Canada to avoid serving. Like when all those celebrities in Hollywood swore they would move to Canada if Trump was elected, and then completely failed to live up to their promises.
- TravHatesMe 7y agoWhat makes you think that things are so much better in Canada? There are so many problems here.. the grass is always greener.
- gpm 7y agoBecause we have functional universal healthcare, safety nets that let people stop working when ill, etc. I've lived in both, I am very happy I am in Canada instead of the US right now.
- m0zg 7y agoThe good news is after this is all over we'll see exactly which healthcare systems are "functional" in a pandemic, ones flush with cash or ones starved for cash. We don't know that quite yet.
- reaperducer 7y agoBecause we have functional universal healthcare You'll have to define "functional" for me, as someone who frequently hears advertisements on Palm Springs radio stations for hospitals offering to perform medical services on snowbird Canadians that they can't get done at home.
- gpm 7y agoUh, does "I can get whatever care I need, whenever I need it, for free" work for you? Apart from purely elective plastic surgery (which isn't free, or needed) I really can't think of any services that could be being advertised. Maybe your hearing advertisements for medical care that doesn't involve returning to Canada instead of medical care not available in Canada?
- reaperducer 7y agoYou may want to stop waving that "Whatever care I need, whenever I need it" flag. The average wait time from a GP's referral to seeing a specialist in Canada was 8.7 weeks in 2018. Meanwhile, this USA-an doesn't need a referral to see a specialist. I can just pick up the phone and make an appointment. "Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 19.8 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment" That goes up to almost a year (45.1 weeks) to wait in New Brunswick for treatment. Source: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2018 https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...