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Originally posted by Animal:
Money talks, Cloudy. The universal language. It's the funding to the various hospitals that's the issue, and certain areas are better funded than others. The health care system is universal and everyone is entitled to the same level of care, but it depends on which hospital you go to. Probably, the same everywhere I would think.
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Aha..ok. I just wondered why a system that ostensibly offers equal care to everyone would have a hospital less well equipped etc than others in particular neighborhoods. I could understand it in the states where the local budgets determine what public hospitals get built and how big/well staffed they are but I wasn't sure what you meant about public hospitals in Canada that way. Are there private ones in Canada or is that legal?
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Originally posted by WillowIX:
No system is perfect, but IMO everyone is entitled to the same care. Money is not an issue. A millionare shouldn't receive better care than a factory worker and so forth.
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Willow, that's what I mean about it not working they way it's supposed to -- you say everyone should be entitled to the same care, and for the most part I certainly agree with you! Yet, Animal points out that some 'lower income' areas have lesser medical facitlities because of money issues. To me, that's not much different that people in the states not being able to afford certain kinds of care. Either way, someone loses out because of money.
[ 07-20-2003, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]