Canadian Healthcare

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I have had one experience with Canadian healthcare- although I hope to someday have many more, either in B.C. or Newfoundland/Labrador.

A few years ago, just before we left for Canada, my breathing machine broke. It was a Friday night/Saturday morning.

I called my local company and got nothing but hassle- I could maybe get somebody in on Saturday (we were leaving the next day), but I would have to pay the OT involved.

I picked up the phone, called a shop in Vancouver, gave them my story and my machine settings, and they said they would have the machine for me Monday.

I could have had it delivered to my hotel that day, except the branch location that actually had the machine in stock was closed on Saturday.

No prescription, no Doctor's note, just great customer service. I arrived, gave them a credit card, grabbed the machine- and they even let me keep it when we returned home until I got my own machine replaced- and then I shipped it back to them.

Despite the Republican lies and fabricated horror stories to the contrary, the Canadians are overwhelmingly happy with their health care, and the United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world not to have universal care.

Hopefully, that will soon change- WITH a public option.

SRT