Quote Originally Posted by BDSM_Tourguide
Yes, the Canadian health care system is so bad that my wife's induced pregnancy, eight day hospital stay, food, C-section, room, blood pressure medication, pain medication, anesthesia, pre- and post-natal care, as well as my daughter's jaundice treatments, food, diapers, blankets, and tests were all completely covered at no cost to us.

An equivalent value in the US of somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 worth of treatment and surgery didn't cost us one penny.

What a horrible health care system.
I'm glad to hear you were well taken care of. But, you would have been treated equally as well in any other developed country.

As others have pointed out, the big failure of our health system is the waiting lists. This situation is completely foreign to most European countries. France, for example, provides a level of care at least equal to ours without waiting lists. Why are we so pig-headed that we won't learn from other countries which do it better than we do?