#9 You’re wronng. In the US if today I don’t have the money I can raise it. I can save by not purchasing other goods and services, I can work extra hours to raise money, I can borrow from friends or family, I can seek out charity. None of these options is available in Canada.
Wait times are a reality in Canada. A Quebec man sued the government and won with the Quebec Supreme Court stating access to a waiting list is not access to health care.
80% of colon ca patients in Canada are deemed to have treatable disease when diagnosed, 40% are deemed to have treatable disease when chemotherapy starts.
There’s a reason why the US has higher cancer survivorship rates than Canada and Europe. We actually treat more people and treat them sooner.
In the UK, 1 in 5 to 1 in 4 men will die of prostate cancer who, had they been in the US, would have survived. In fact US survival rates are so high that you would have to argue that NO ONE who has insurance EVER dies of prostate cancer. That is simply not true. How do hose without insurance get treated? I don’t know, but they do. They do better than the insured in other nations.
