I know a man in Canada who did die from a heart attack under their socialized medicine. He had a heart attack. They didn’t have room for him. They sent him home, and he died later that night. But it sure saved therm a lot of money not having to treat him. 😡
See paragraph four below.
What we do know is that Bernie Sanders was admitted Tuesday night and by the next day, he had two stents put in to deal with a blockage in an artery. He tweeted, “I’m feeling good. I’m fortunate to have good health care and great doctors and nurses helping me to recover.” And added, “Medicare for All!”
Despite the name, Medicare for All has nothing to do with Medicare. It’s a socialist proposal that would actually eliminate Medicare and reduce everyone to a sub-Medicaid system with limited care options. It draws its inspiration from the British NHS, Canada’s socialized medicine and some European systems.
While Bernie’s timetable of getting an angioplasty within a day might not sound that impressive to Americans, in the British NHS system, the median time from assessment to treatment is 55.3 days. Mean times for treatment have been cited as being 80 days. The maximum NHS waiting time is supposed to be 18 weeks and almost 16% of patients in the UK have to wait more than 3 months for an angioplasty.
Canada’s socialist system has angioplasty waiting times of around 11 weeks. And that’s after you get an appointment to see a specialist. The usual approach is to hand patients some aspirin and to praise Canada’s enlightened socialist system for not “rushing” patients into the hospital like the Americans.
You can go to the ER, but waiting times in Canadian ERs are worse than most other countries.