I just saw the most despicable commercial on CNN. It shows a Canadian woman (although we don’t know for sure she is Canadian, and I have my doubts) talking about how she had brain cancer and it would have taken her six months to see a specialist under the Canadian health care system, but since she only had six months to live, she went to the US and got treatment right away. Had she stayed in Canada she would be dead now.
I know our system here in Canada is not perfect. No system is. But I seriously don’t think that she would have died under our health care system as she describes in the commercial.
She also doesn’t explain the massive amounts of money she would have had to shell out for treatment in the US. Enough to bankrupt most middle to upper class citizens of both countries.
About 1/5th of Americans right now (roughly 50 million (almost twice the population of Canada)) don’t have health care right now. How does the current American system help those people with brain cancer or any other life threatening diseases?
Do CNN and the producers of this commercial realize that we get CNN in Canada?
My US friends; don’t believe this commercial. There are always exceptions to any rule and yes, rarely some people may slip through the cracks. But I don’t know any Canadian that would trade our system for the one in the currently in the US.
