Quote Originally Posted by snowroo View Post
My son had a bone marrow transplant and a four month hospital stay.

Our hospital costs.

$0.

Birth of my kids

$0

Foot and ankle surgery

$0

Recent Xray and ER visit

$0

I am so thankful for universal health care.
It's still getting paid for, via taxation or something. I don't understand why people think that their portion should be free, or that they shouldn't pay at least some sort of premium or portion of the fees. I'm more than willing to pay my share, but the scary thing down here (states) is that depending on where you live and what insurer you do or don't have, the cost of a specific thing will vary from $10 to $10000, which is just wrong.

I'm not going to pretend to understand the Canadian system, though.

Don't mean to throw a match into the fire. I always refer back to the great Frontline documentary, very impartial, that compares five different health care systems, when I need to try and understand how different countries do it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...roundtheworld/