Richard8655
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2010
- Messages
- 114
Hello All,
I don't know about you guys, but I got fed up with the American health care system. Unless you decide to be indentured to some corporation in order to get health coverage, it's unaffordable. In addition, it's an insurance industry rippoff ... copays, coinsurance, deductibles, etc. Denials of service by insurance bureaucrats and long appeals is sometimes part of the mix. And for early retirees, forget it these days unless you have FERS/CSRS FEHB, Tricare, VA, or some rare private affordable coverage.
Canada was my answer. Excellent universal health care system for all, including new residents (yours truly). No charge, or minimal depending on income. Fast and efficient, and not at all what the insurance lobby in the States would have you believe. And unlike some inexpensive medical systems in small third world countries that some ER's move to and use, Canada's health care system is first world, first class, and rated #1 by the UN.
I quite frankly don't know why more ER's here don't consider this option, instead of going without until Medicare, or suffering with the exorbitant ever-increasing private system that can be pulled out from under at any time.
I don't know about you guys, but I got fed up with the American health care system. Unless you decide to be indentured to some corporation in order to get health coverage, it's unaffordable. In addition, it's an insurance industry rippoff ... copays, coinsurance, deductibles, etc. Denials of service by insurance bureaucrats and long appeals is sometimes part of the mix. And for early retirees, forget it these days unless you have FERS/CSRS FEHB, Tricare, VA, or some rare private affordable coverage.
Canada was my answer. Excellent universal health care system for all, including new residents (yours truly). No charge, or minimal depending on income. Fast and efficient, and not at all what the insurance lobby in the States would have you believe. And unlike some inexpensive medical systems in small third world countries that some ER's move to and use, Canada's health care system is first world, first class, and rated #1 by the UN.
I quite frankly don't know why more ER's here don't consider this option, instead of going without until Medicare, or suffering with the exorbitant ever-increasing private system that can be pulled out from under at any time.