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The Canadian medical system is cracking on all fronts. From the doctor to the patient, and each stakeholder in between, the dream of socialized single payer medical care is falling apart. Although expensive, it remains underfunded.

Abuse comes in many forms, including the large numbers who don’t live in Canada, but come to use the Medicare services.

In some of the research I’ve done, a number of doctors indicated that one of the pressures comes from a more recent phenomena, . . . the fact that many of the new immigrants get at least 3 opinions from 3 different doctors (including “drop-in” clinics) for everything that ails them. They don’t pay, so they spend time getting their colds diagnosed.

The immigration industry in Canada is one of the pillars of the Canadian economy, and “Medicare” is one of its principal drawing cards, . . . “apply for a Medical Care Card after only 3 months of residency.”. . . . . http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/canadas-breaking-health-care-system.html

More importantly, it appears that on average even serious operations require the patient to go into a one year holding pattern, unless he or she heads for the Emergency room in the back of an Ambulance.

Did you know that since 1970, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined? Canada is to close to US which know from its best health care.