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Socialized Medicine - When I lived in Canada, I never heard it referred to as that. After living in the U.S., I hear a lot of horror stories about "socialized medicine" and how bad it is. The name itself seems to have a negative connotation. At least in Canada, it is more correctly referred to as "universal health care", where you basically have one (although each province runs its own) insurance company and all residents are covered. The doctors are not government employees - but are independent practioners as they are here in the U.S. Much easier to deal with one insurance provider for them where here in the U.S. they deal with a number of providers and have to have a larger administrative staff to deal with all the varied billing issues.
Not a perfect system but no where near as horrible as it is made out to be. It is nice to know you are covered and won't be bankrupt because of medical costs.
Here, I'm fortunate to have a good health care plan but many aren't. It would be great if the U.S. could come up with a Plan that works even better than some of the other countries. Right now the U.S. is lagging behind.
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