Oh Canada! How Your Health Care Blows

Just as the US is trying to ramp up for some form of socialized medicine (PLEASE NO!), Canada is taking baby steps to privatize.

I was talking on the phone to a 22 year old dude who was helping me with my I-Pod fix. He had heart pain after losing a significant amount of weight, he was a smoker and has some serious signs of impeding cardiac event. He can't get an appointment for three months. He was so frustrated. He said that his GP shooed him out with a prescription, no testing and ignored his pain when he ended up in the hospital with pain that sound pre-heart attack to me. The doc gets paid $45 no matter how long or what he does with the guy. Not exactly an incentive to deliver stellar healthcare.