The AMA is hazardous to your health - As a Canadian; as with most Canadians, what we do understand about getting sick or being injured in the United States, is that when you go to the doctor or hospital, you’d better have Insurance, or bring the Mortgage to your house. That pretty much sums it up.

Sicko, despite whatever draw-backs we have been told, still holds water when it comes to portraying the healthcare systems in the U.S., the U.K., France, Cuba and Canada.

Although Moore’s films are usually lambasted by the critics as being ‘out of context’ and ‘missing information’, it gets the basic point across. American healthcare sucks.Having never lived in France or Cuba, and having only visited both the U.S. and the U.K., I can’t speak for the medical service. 

In the case of the U.S. - thank all the gods I’ve never had the pleasure. I don’t have 50 Grand to re-attach the tip of my finger after I mistakenly give a New York Rangers fan the finger at a hockey game and it’s sliced off by his very handy switch-blade - after all, it is New York.

Sure, in Canada, we can wander into our local hospital holding the tip of our fingers and very nice doctors and nurses will put Humpty-Dumpty back together again - for free - kinda.
 

In a nutshell, our healthcare is paid through income taxes by those who make over 20 to 25 Grand a year. Don’t quote me on those numbers. And yes, we sometimes have to wait for help and assistance for certain tests, operations or other medical treatments. But never to point of dying. People who are diagnosed with cancer are taken care of right away.

Our hospital emergency rooms work on a Priority system. In other words, if you show up with a stubbed toe, you will sit there waiting for a very long time. The person coming through the door with a broken leg will be ahead of you, and if the next person is 80% covered with 3 degree burns, everyone’s sitting there – for a little while at least.

American propaganda dictates that our healthcare system is a horrible monster that is wreaking the country, ala socialism. Bullshit.

I feel for those Americans who have no healthcare and those who think they do. Your country has some serious issues when it comes to looking after your fellow American.

You may look upon Canada as your next-door neighbour, good or bad, but ask yourselves why are Americans coming across the border to see our doctors? Because they need help and can’t afford the outrageous costs that are incurred.

Before you all vote Obama out or have him impeached for trying to help some 50 million Americans have better health care, blow the dust off the Sicko movie and give it another shot. And in a country where guns are a plenty, you’d think you want healthcare help.

Check what the American Medical Association (AMA) is doing and how they do it. They, like so many other huge groups, have incorporated themselves into the government psyche and now run the American healthcare system – while they make billions, and you stay sick.

In retrospect, Americans have no right to claim that they are the “Greatest Country in the Universe”, when they can’t even look after their own people. Stop trying to look after the world and take care of your own, your people need it. Besides, if you take care of your people - your people will take care of the country.

You’re shooting yourselves in your own feet – and you have no band-aids.

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