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Bunnahabhain

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22. That's your opinion.

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 12:45 PM

Sep 2013

My opinion on the Canadian hubris surrounding healthcare is based on three things: my education (public health, policy and administration, and clinical background), my actual work within both the US and Canadian healthcare system, and my lived experience of over four decades of being Canadian which includes untold hours of listening to my friends and relatives back home give me their opinions on the healthcare system of both countries.

We're both equally entitled to our opinions. You share the same lived experience as I do, being Canadian and interfacing with OHIP, but you lack the other two components. I'm not saying my opinion is better than yours but am pointing out my opinion was not formed in a vacuum but rather from within a rich context of education, work, and lived experience.

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To the Men of DU - tomorrow, I have to strip naked for a woman, then she will "feel me up". [View all] Denninmi Sep 2013 OP

I knew that's what it was HarveyDarkey Sep 2013 #1

Don't get me wrong Denninmi Sep 2013 #4

Well me too, sometimes more often than not HarveyDarkey Sep 2013 #7

I would gladly pay.... NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #2

Yikes. Denninmi Sep 2013 #3

It is brutal. For one person. That's more than my mortage. ACA will cut it in half. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #5

"$1,432/month for COBRA... " really? ConcernedCanuk Sep 2013 #13

He's already lost the employment Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #15

I'm 62, never paid OHIP (our healthcare) a dime other than small deductions off my paychecks. ConcernedCanuk Sep 2013 #17

You might not have paid it Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #18

" typical Canadian hubris about the state of healthcare in Canada." ConcernedCanuk Sep 2013 #19

That's your opinion. Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #22

Thank you for the links! COBRA is a trap, if you qualify you have to use it. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #16

My last 2 'family practice' physicians have been women. trof Sep 2013 #6

Turn your head and cough, please. RushIsRot Sep 2013 #8

I cannot afford medical care I actually need, which means I don't get it... Demo_Chris Sep 2013 #9

Right.. HipChick Sep 2013 #10

That's what the doctor said... Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2013 #14

Yup, emergency or semi-emergency situations only Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #11

Good luck davidpdx Sep 2013 #12

Back when I was a Medical Assistant, one of my jobs was to serveas a chaperone Aristus Sep 2013 #20

I understand why it's done with a male HC provider and female patient. Denninmi Sep 2013 #23

The patients in questions weren't minors or anything, but they were still pretty young. Aristus Sep 2013 #25

BTW, she was really impressed with my weight loss and fitness routine. Denninmi Sep 2013 #24

Great news Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #26

Call me sexist but I prefer female doctors Taverner Sep 2013 #21

It's worse when your Doc has trainees in tow ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2013 #27

I had that when I needed my appendix out mythology Sep 2013 #28

You knucklehead Bucky Sep 2013 #29

Really? Denninmi Sep 2013 #30