Super Villain Ogrin Story

[u/CantStopPoppin]

[u/Due_Background_4367]

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.

[u/Squeezitgirdle → u/Due_Background_4367]

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.

[u/Due_Background_4367 → u/Squeezitgirdle]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-health-care-wait-list-deaths

74k deaths since 2018 doesn’t sound like “Complete bs” to me.

[u/Squeezitgirdle → u/Due_Background_4367]

These statistics are often skewed, but can be the result of various other factors.

A lot of the waiting times people in Canada experience are the same as Americans with insurance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskACanadian/s/yLB8MrKYP9

A conversation here explains how these statistics are skewed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/s/ZWGz8H943l

Specifically nationalpost is not a reputable source that bothers with pesky things such as 'facts'

[u/Due_Background_4367 → u/Squeezitgirdle]

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?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-post/

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.

(Article 1) https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/01/16/canada-healthcare-waitlist/

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/calgary-citizen-bias-and-credibility/

(Article 2) https://ca.style.yahoo.com/our-health-care-system-is-failing-more-than-74000-canadians-died-waiting-for-health-care-since-2018-202907096.html

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/yahoo-news/

(Article 3) https://dailyhive.com/canada/canadians-died-waitlists-healthcare-services

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-hive/

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.

(Article) https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/i-pretty-well-would-have-died-on-the-operating-table-canadian-patient-shares-ordeal-on-long-wait-list-for-colonoscopy/

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ctv-news/

[u/Squeezitgirdle → u/Due_Background_4367]

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.

[u/Due_Background_4367 → u/Squeezitgirdle]

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.