As a Canadian who lives with this ideal of universal publicly funded healthcare, I believe I can comment on a few facts Moore left out of his “documentary”. The universal healthcare here is also rationed. There are common procedures (hip & knee surgery) and tests (CAT scans & MRI’s)that require sitting months on a waiting list. You can speed it up, but you have to pay out of your own pocket or go to the US. This partly due to lack of doctors, specialists, nurses and technicians.
Health care costs are sky rocketing, and are eating up bigger and bigger chucks of government budgets. Most provinces can’t keep up and need to run bigger and bigger budget deficts to just maintain basic services. Even in the wealthier provinces they are cutting hospital beds, and adding fees for certain services. Long term, the current way funding our vaunted healthcare system will bankrupt us as nation. It is not quite the paradise Moore would lead his viewers to believe.
