treatment: US vs Canada

I just hate to see Walmart getting bashed time and time again when they are actually a much better place to work than the average retail or restaurant job. I hate it when the far right or the far left spews out misleading and false garbage which isn't even true. The fact is that these fat cat millionaires provide tens of thousands of jobs that wouldn't otherwise be there. They need millions of dollars to be able to have the leverage to build more and more Walmarts, providing more and more jobs. Are there excesses? Sure there are but you can't blame every rich owner for the misdeeds of the ones who are excessively greedy like the bankers and other Wall Streeters who drive their companies (and it's employees) into the ground and walk out the back door with a 20 million dollar golden parachute. The socialistic societies of Europe are going down hill fast and somehow we need to find a middleground between the greediness of the capitalist society and those socialistic societies that are going bankrupt at a very fast rate.

Wow, $5000 for a colonoscopy! That's a lot. I hope you can do something with that to claim it on your income tax.

I suppose with the high personal expense of the US system, we are more likely to learn of alternative therapies (good and bad).

Some of the upthread comments about taking responsibility for this disease by becoming informed is probably the way to go.

I do feel bad for all you US people who need drugs and procedures, and can't afford them. Waiting at a doctor's office isn't really all that bad (and wasn't my main concern), it's the let's do drugs and nothing else (because it's cheaper here) mentality that is my big concern.

garylouisville
You sound like you've been listening to the reporters on Fox channel. Yikes! Talk about bad losers.
We are not and will never be a socialist country!
However, a little wealth redistribution is in order.

I, too, hate it when misleading or untrue info is spewed.

But.......I love it when people say they don't want government interference.
That is, until they qualify for Social Security and Medicare or need Federal Aid for natural disasters.... and so on and so on.

I like the term "excessively greedy". How is that measured?

itsalwayssomething:

There are many doctors RIGHT NOW who refuse to see medicare and medicaid patients. I had a disabled stepson who passed away a few years ago and we had to look around to several different doctors before we finally found one who was seeing new patients and accepting medicaid. Obamacare will be cutting 716 billion dollars from medicare and dropping the amounts of payments to doctors and providers. There have been several doctors and providers who have said they will be dropping medicare patients due to the lower payments coming up and you should believe them. They are in the business to make money, not give free services. Medicare is a nightmere already for them while making very little profit as it is. You probably think that that is just Foxnews propoganda but it is not. And, for the record, I am an independant, not a right wing Foxnews zombie. I am not even a bad loser because I actually voted for Obama. But, there are truths out there and you can't ignore them just because you are far left or far right. The trouble is the left wing liberals don't think they are left wing at all, they believe they are mainstream. Same thing for the right wing. There have been several polls that show that more than 50% of Americans identify themselves as "conservative". The trouble with that is there are conservatives and there are conservatives. The right wing takes these polls to mean that more than 50% of Americans are far right and they are not. That's been their mistake all along. Most registered Republicans are actually moderate, not far right wackos. That is proven by the fact that the last two presidential elections those registered Republicans voted in the primaries for moderate presidential nominees, not right wing wackos. The right wing wackos hated both McCain and Romney. The biggest mistake Republicans can make is to start thinking that the reason they lost the election is because both McCain and Romney were not conservative enough. If that's what they take out of this they will be losing elections for a long time to come. Having said all that, it is not a crime for rich people to be millionaires while the employees of their businesses are making $20,000 per year. There are 47% of Americans who pay absolutely zero in federal income taxes. In my opinion these people who pay zero in federal income taxes have a lot of nerve and are major hippocrites by saying the rich aren't paying their fair share while they are paying zero. I believe everyone should pay there fair share from the poor to the rich but you can't complain that the rich aren't paying enough while you are paying zero and the millionaiers are actually paying millions(most do). The far left liberals have to get their heads out of the ground (or elsewhere). Hostess just recently decided to fold and put over 18,000 people out of work. They were near or at bankruptcy and yet the worker's union refused to accept a 10% pay cut to help save the company and their jobs too. I guess the union thought it was just a bunch of greedy rich people who wanted to take advantage of their workers. They figured wrong. Hostess had to close down and file for bankruptcy, causing the loss of all of those jobs. They wouldn't have done that if they were making oodles of money. They would have made a deal with the union if they could. Now I saw an interview by a worker the other day and they were excited about Hostess selling the company to someone else and that they would eventually have their jobs back. Well, I've got news for them. 1 + 1 still equals 2 and a new owner will not be able to keep the place afloat without getting the workers to accept a 10% pay cut or to cut labor costs in some way by eliminating jobs or benefits or both.