American health care vs. Canadian universal health care. Is YOUR system better than the US system?

I know you'd rather hear from an American, but as I'm Canadian too, I thought I'd mention that many Americans have invested interest in keeping their health care as it is, such as investments or kickbacks from the Insurance companies that sell health care insurance. Other Americans have been scared into believing if their Government takes control all chaos will ensue, like Seniors ending up on death panels... that was a doozy rumour which Sarah Palin liked to perpetuate. Basically many Americans have been misinformed by the Republican Party and fear Government Control, but also a few Canadians (2 to be exact on political ads that I've seen) have been wooed or hired to give testimonials about their terrible experience with our Health care.

Basically they had to wait for an operation, which infuriated them so they went south of the border & paid for the operation themselves. Premier Danny Williams didn't help either by going south for an operation. We never did find out why as he claimed it was a private matter?

Thus the US conservative far right pick up on these stories & spin the truth to make it sound like we're all in desperate need to go else where for good quality health care. Unfortunately it doesn't help having many other Politicians or Premiers promoting American Style Health care here in Canada, because they're also being wooed by American Health Insurance Corporations, but we clearly have a more humane & just universal health system than the US, it's just a matter of fighting to keep it & tweak it to be better, so US Insurance spokes persons can't continue to bash our system, & those in the US who are fighting for Universal care may win some day soon.

People who say that Canadians and other people who come from countries with nationalized health care have to be on waiting lists don't know what they're talking about. Yes, there are some who do travel to the US for medical care but they often are wealthy people who do so to get elective procedures done. Those who talk about waiting lists fail to realize that this can and does occur in the US with private insurance companies.

How many of them have had claims denied or delayed for no apparent reason? How many of them have had to wait to get a serious medical problem taken care of because their insurance company decided they needed to wait until they were eligible for coverage? I've heard of cases of women with breast cancer having to wait weeks to be able to see a doctor or get treatments.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.