Health Care and then some...

Lurking facebook this morning I noticed a post on my step-dads wall. I'm stealing it because I think he has a very valid point...

"As a proud Canadian, I would like to know where the republican party is finding these Canadians who believe that the Canadian health care system is so bad that they would rather go to the United States to pay for health care. Yes, at times you are required to wait in the ER, yes your non-life threatening surgery may not be immediate, and yes we pay higher taxes, but my father was able to have a quadruple by-pass with no waiting time and was not given an invoice to be paid when he left the hospital. In Canada we have some of the most talented doctors in the world. Don't let the right wing rhetoric or the false commercials steer you away from a health care system that takes care of all it's countries citizens and not the select few. If there are Americans that are truly want private health care then they should be allowed to pay for it, some people have more money than brains."
-Carmine Ioannoni-

Even after reading this out loud to the people I work with I have still yet to meet a single middle-class (i.e not loaded) American who wouldn't GLADLY pay higher taxes or barter their first born for free health care. I can't even number how many people that I've met here who struggle with chronic illnesses and still recieve no treatment. Sometimes it's because they simply can't afford insurance but it's also because the co-pays required even if they HAVE insurance would total out to be more is needed to cover rent and groceries for the next few months.

Given my current impregnated state I notice these things more... but I think that the situation needs to be changed when in the E.R at every local hospital a sign reads something to the effect of "If you are in labour you have the right to recieve stabilizing medical care." When I asked about it I was told that it basically means that if you don't have your insurance cards, a VERY high balance credit card or cash in hand that you will be giving birth at home as soon as the shot wears off. (Not an exact quote... but that's the general idea.)
It makes me look very skeptically into the future and wonder what's going to happen if Brandon gets laid off and we lose our insurance. What if Emery has a high fever or gets sick? What if Brandons foot falls off because the IHC doctors here are retarded and can't tell us what's wrong with it? What if I need meds that we don't have the money to cover anymore?

Yeah... the outlook is pretty positive, eh?