Hermano C,
Quiero ver si entiendo..Que se da servicio medico gratis sin pagar nada en Canada? Es "verda", pero el Gobi Federal de Canada tiene a los pobres pacientes en lista de espera para operaciones. Por que tu crees que se van a EUA para sus operaciones los que pueden? Mira un articulo que escribio el Freedom Party of Ontario:
Cutbacks, closures, waiting lists
forcing moves towards free-market reforms
Experts consider Alternatives to Medicare
Timothy Bloedow
HEALTH
The value of choice has been thrust into the forefront of political debate about Canada's socialized medical system with the recent report of Canadians dying in record numbers waiting for surgery at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The conflict between Federal Health Minister, Diane Marleau (Sudbury), and the provincial health ministers seems also to be consolidating around the issue of freedom as discussion goes deeper than the expected verbal bantering over one tier or two.
In the past 17 months, 27 Canadians have died whilst waiting for heart surgery at the Civic, contributing to questions about the morality of Canada's medical system as people try to find someone, or something, to blame.
Waiting lists have 320 names while operating rooms sit dark and empty two days a week because of lack of funds. The average cost of heart surgery is $11,700 and the $3 million requested by the hospital from the provincial government could take 150 people off the waiting list.
Today's medical system is the legacy of Pearson's Liberal government which provided national legislative force to the principle of universality first established provincially in Saskatchewan. In 1984, the federal Liberal government legislated the Canada Health Act, which Stephen Brooks, spokesman for Dr. Grant Hill (Reform - MacLeod), Reform Health Critic, said was instituted essentially to "blackmail" Alberta for extra-billing, but also entrenched the government's opposition to privately provided essential services.
In the light of the present escalation in deaths of people awaiting heart surgery (the average number previously was four to five per year), however, Dr. Wilbert Keon, director of the Ottawa Heart Institute, has challenged the ethic of eliminating this free choice from Canadians. He declared that governments that can not or will not fund health services, but will prevent people from seeking independent alternatives within the country, are "condemn[ing those] patients to death."
Esto es solo parte del articulo. Si quieres leer el resto, aqui esta la pagina:
http://www.freedomparty.org/flyer/ff29_19.htm.
Con eso de que el servicio en Canada es mejor, es falso. Que vale la pena tener algo asi si te mueres esperando por el servicio. Nope, not for me! Por lo menos Puerto Rico tiene la Tarjeta, no sera lo mejor, pero por lo menos no es como el programa de Canada. En otros post, Me gustaria opinar sobre tus otras declaraciones de Canada..stay tune folks.