[Now all of these problems have solutions for example in Canada health Care is RUN by the provinces but the Federal government partially funds it and provides standards for the provinces to meet. *
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If Canada's healthcare system is so great, why do the Canadians come to the U.S. for specialists? This summer and fall in Alberta, the hospitals were full and they send dozens of pregnant women 200 to 300 miles south to Montana to deliver babies. The hospital WOULD NOT accomodate these women who were about to give birth, but it worked out fine because they had the U.S. to fall back on. Who will we fall back on? Are you prepared to go to Mexico for surgery (for that matter, Mexicans who can afford it also come to the U.S.)
You are a healthy person and don't like to pay for other peoples' health problems. In that same line of thinking, my husband is self employed therefore we pay for all of our own health insurance. I don't like to pay for someone else's health insurance when people, who could afford insurance CHOOSE not to buy it. There are people who can't afford it, and reforms have to be made. However, we should think of health insurance as a necessity--something we pay monthly just like our power bill.
There are obviously problems in the the healthcare industry, but the U.S. has the highest quality hospitals, the best medical schools, the most innovative research, and the most motivated doctors in the world.