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:::Well, I don't expect everyone to agree with me, I find your points...let's say... vague. Not a "lottery" it's really just a queue? What is a word for wait inline with others? The following link says otherwise [http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/real-canadian-health-care-field-trip.html] Who makes this decision ''" any point your ailment becomes near-immediately life threatening" ''? The American healthcare system is SUPERIOR on so many different levels when compared to socialized medicine.--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 15:20, 16 January 2010 (EST)

::::Your link doesn't work, so I'll try again later. As I said, I'm unfamiliar with the Canadian system, but I highly doubt they use a lottery; I'm going by the British system, where your place in the queue decides when you get treatment. A doctor decides whether your problem has become immediately life-threatening, or you can call 999 and get an ambulance; it's not as if your appendix ruptures or your arm falls off and you have to wait two weeks for treatment; you will be rushed to hospital and operated on immediately. You don't go before a 'death panel' before or after which asks you how productive your life has been or tests your political loyalty <s>or asks whether you can pay</s>. I'll admit American healthcare is better, but that's because they can go about their business without regard to cost; they choose who to treat, confident in the knowledge that the bottom line doesn't matter, because the patient will pay; those that can't go out on their ear (unless, I'm hoping, it's a true emergency). American healthcare is probably better - for those who can get it. The system, however, I consider worse, for those who can't afford it don't get it. Socialized healthcare is probably worse, because a) they don't have a limitless amount of money to spend and b) they treat EVERYONE, so they have to treat more people, but still, I consider the socialized system the better of the two, because everyone receives treatment. My preference, however, is for a system like Britain's; private healthcare for those who want and can afford it, and that takes pressure off the socialized system which treats everyone else (and treats them well, however many scare stories about people waking up with three arms you hear). [[User:CharlieT|CharlieT]] 15:49, 16 January 2010 (EST)