MrFedEx
Engorged Member
You may not always be. When you have to wait months to see a doctor for a procedure, or have that procedure deemed unnecessary by a review board, you may grow nostalgic for the old system.
You have pre-existing conditions that would probably preclude affordable insurance rates for yourself. One would think that you, of all people, would understand this. The "horror" stories of socialized medicine seem all too much like the usual GOP talking points. "Death panels", "Long waits for procedures", blah, blah, blah. I actually have a relative who practices medicine in Canada, and I've asked him about their health system frequently, and what I've been told is this:
1. Serious conditions go to the head of the line..period
2. There are waits for elective, non-serious issues. Yes, there is prioritization
3. Doctors have caps on their wages. Once they reach a certain point...that's it.
4. Canada has a GST tax that varies per province that pays for it.
There are no review boards under Obamacare, and the "death panels" were optional end-of-life counseling sessions that a person could choose to avail themselves of. No panels saying someone wasn't going to get care. This is a GOP talking-point LIE.
Besides, Obamacare is NOT socialized medicine in the way you are portraying it. There is no single-payer system yet, and there are still private insurance companies providing care, not some socialist state system that dictates every aspect of health care.