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by TMWNN 3 days ago
>Or when they can't afford health care anymore

Ah yes, the so-effective Canadian system.

Context for others: An amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/health-care-on-the-bri...>. In Atlantic Canada (the four easternmost provinces) it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too, and am hearing more reports of the same in Ontario.

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Meanwhile, in the US people can't afford to become sick or just go bankrupt over it.

Do you want to argue that both systems suck? I don't know enough about the Canadian system to judge on that, as long as we can agree that the US system is completely broken we agree.

At least two hospitals in the Greater Vancouver area have had weekend ER closures this year. Kelowna is having their own issues, mostly maternity.