• Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    What’s more depressing than American healthcare?

    Canadian conservatives replacing theirs with the American system without a fight.

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      When I last visited Canada a group of old men were talking at the Canadian Tire about how long it takes to see a doctor. Were saying they need to start making people pay like they do in the States.

      Don’t fall for that propaganda. We have both long waits and pay a ton of money. It can be both. I’ve had bills up to $118,000 and it can take me a year to see a specialist. I can’t find a primary care doctor and it takes several months to get in with a temporary nurse practitioner instead.

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      It’s pathetic. We are willing choosing to let it go, despite being such a huge advantage of being Canadian

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        Wait are you guys going down the shitter too? Illegally migrating to canada has always been my backup plan

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          the entire conservative agenda is to dismantle universal healthcare from the inside to prove that “it doesn’t work, we should privatize it”

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          Oh yeah, we are. Pierre says privatization is cool, and like morons, the majority of Canada believes that this rendition of trickle down economics won’t line the pockets of the rich

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      I hear this a lot but where is it happening? Definitely not in the discussion in NS.

      Dont get me wrong, fuck the PCs but I havent seen any real evidence of replacing our public medical system.

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        It’s the provinces with an outrageously wealthy upper class. BC, Calgary, and Ontario are chock full of rich conservatives that want to replicate the American system in Canada so that they can rival their American peers.