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Dire predictions for Apple's supply chain, retail demand were wrong
DAalseth said:
I grew up in the US, lived there until I was in my 40s. I know the US healthcare system very well. We live in Canada now. A few years ago I was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Together Canada’s health care system and I beat it. I am absolutely convinced that if I had still been in the US when I was diagnosed my family would today be bankrupt and I would be dead. The US healthcare system has some good people trying to make it work. But at it’s heart it’s about money not care. If you have money you get care. If you don’t then the insurance companies and the HMOs can’t profit so you don’t.firelock said:“ without a functional public health system”
Oh please. I generally like DED articles but this is just a hyperbolic political screed.
As a counter, I was born and raised in Canada and saw both my mother and step-mother die of cancer due the slow and jaded Canadian health care system. My mother-in-law on the other hand, received fast and exceptional treatment in the U.S. that extended her life several years with a cancer that has a less than 5% survival rate for the first encounter. The U.S. healthcare system most definitely has problems but the problems are no less severe in Canada.
