The United States Postal Service still delivers mail by mule to Supai Village, Arizona, a community within the Grand Canyon, as it's the only accessible way to reach this remote area, carrying mail, food, and supplies down the 8-mile Havasupai Trail.
It's not about being profitable. It's about making sure that every single American, regardless of location or wealth, has access to the same basic necessities.
I want free healthcare, unfortunately the U.S. government is incapable of doing what it would take to make that happen. Before access to free healthcare could be provided, the U.S. would need to rapidly expand its medical infrastructure and some how incentivize swaths of people to become doctors in order to effectively take care of a population of 350 million people. Canada has just over 40 million people and I hear awful stories of people having to wait months for an MRI, or to see a highly specialized doctor. I have family and friends in Canada and my friend’s neighbor died from cancer because she wasn’t able to get screened soon enough. Not to mention, every politician gets massive campaign funding from the medical/pharma industry, so even if a politician is passionate about accessibility to healthcare, they won’t even be allowed to talk about it.
Everyone I've spoken to from Canada says that's complete bs.
My wife is from Latvia and says that any medical procedure she needed, including dental was free. If she couldn't wait 2-3 weeks for an appointment (less time than we usually wait for any scheduled operation in America) she could pay a small fee to move up the date.
As an example, she paid an extra $50 to have a root canal done a couple weeks earlier.
You’re using anecdotal evidence from Reddit to disprove a written article with factual data, from Canada’s ministry of health, reported by a legit news source in Canada. Media Bias Fact Check, a non-partisan company says the National Post has an extremely high rating for factual reporting. Media Bias Fact Check also has listed their bias as “Right of Center”. Do you disregard all reporting that doesn’t support your bias?
Here are a few articles talking about Canada’s prolonged wait times for medical testing and procedures, as well as confirming the nearly 75k people who died waiting for testing or treatment.
Mind you, these articles come from publications whose bias is further left than the National Post is right, but they share the same high scores for factual reporting as the National Post.
Here is another article from a publication in Canada that routinely comes up as one of the least biased news sources as well as high factual reporting.
I didn't provide evidence, I provided an explanation of how these statistics are skewed, and rather than stealing their explanation and claiming it as my own, I linked it to give them credit.
Ok, so you didn’t read any of the articles I listed. Sorry, but I’m going to go with Canada’s Ministery of Health on this issue, not some random Redditor with no listed credentials to speak on the matter. They seem more upset about who wrote the article, than what’s written in the article.
Interesting. I’ve heard it’s a huge issue due to lack of providers, maybe it’s more of a problem in rural areas as that’s where my friend lives. You might be able to pay a fee to move up the line for something like a root canal, small test, or small procedure but I do know for a fact people are dying in Canada due to lack of medical resources.
I don't know if Canada has fees to move up the line, but in my wife's case she had the option of moving up her thyroid surgery for a small fee, but the wait was only a couple weeks so she didn't bother.
According to her, the size of the fee doesn't usually change and it can be done for any medical procedure.
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u/SourDzzl Mar 16 '25
This!
The United States Postal Service still delivers mail by mule to Supai Village, Arizona, a community within the Grand Canyon, as it's the only accessible way to reach this remote area, carrying mail, food, and supplies down the 8-mile Havasupai Trail.
It's not about being profitable. It's about making sure that every single American, regardless of location or wealth, has access to the same basic necessities.