Canadian physician and author David Gratzner suggests that the American health care system isn't so different from the Canadian one. He writes:
...I was fully confident in our system north of the 49th parallel. I was equally appalled by American health care: the high expense, the tragedy of the uninsured, the dissatisfaction. But gradually, my own views on Canadian health care changed. The most important lesson I learned wasn’t in the classroom, but on the way to one. On a blisteringly cold Winnipeg morning, I decided to cut through the hospital ER in order to shave a few minutes off my commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: The ER was packed with elderly people on stretchers, awaiting admission. The air hung heavy with the odours of sweat and urine and fear. At that moment, I began to reconsider everything I thought I knew.
Comments