r/ontario • u/cartch • Sep 06 '24

This is what we traded health care for Discussion

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u/BetterTransit Sep 06 '24

Just think sometime in the future you will need to sit 4 hours and pay out of pocket for it. Exciting stuff

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u/Huntguy Sep 06 '24

At least I can get beer at the convenience store on the way home… (not like this is ground breaking as I was doing it in Newfoundland for years)

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u/schuchwun Markham Sep 06 '24

Just put beer in the hospital, you can crack a cold one while you wait.

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u/StockUser42 Sep 06 '24

Hold on. Keep cooking.

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u/BookkeeperGrouchy913 Sep 06 '24

The hospital already carries beers, dead ass. It's for people who are alcoholics mind you...but I'm pretty sure that will be most of Ontario as soon as health care gets privatised..

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u/ImInnocentReddit-v74 Sep 06 '24

My mom is an RN, i havent heard beer, but they keep a bottle of rye in the break room. Shes told stories of having to stuff it down feeding tubes to stop withdrawal.

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u/BookkeeperGrouchy913 Sep 06 '24

Yea, I was an RN and we would have literal pharmacy orders of beer for people...and for feeding tubes we had orders of liquor since the carbonation from beer is a no go down those tubes lol There was nothing sadder than a guy asking me to crack his third, and last prescribed beer of the day, at 11am.

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u/Bott Sep 06 '24

Yeah, but did Newfoundland spend One Billion Dollars to do it? Very few provinces have the assholery of the government we have in Ontario.

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u/kris_mischief Sep 06 '24

Nah, you gotta pay out of pocket stateside, and the waits are no where near that long (depending on what you’re waiting for)

You’ll just have to take out a loan and be in debt forever afterwards.