A Short Course in Brain Surgery

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This is some funny stuff here. The current health care reform does not involve "government-run health care." It relates to payment of insurance for private care. The VA is the only care that is government-run. Folks should get their facts straight before offering such "strongly held" opinions.

Anyone who wants Obamacare should go to ANY VA facility and just sit for one day with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. Those who get care from the VA receive excellent medical care. However, the clerical staff are all civil servants and most come with a builrt-in attitude from hell. The waits are long --- I was wait-listed for 3 years for a brain MRI and waited 6 months for sahoulder surgery. AND I HAVE THE HIGEST PRIORITY AT TH VA because I am a Combat-wounded vet)

Hateblade, there is no such thing as "public charity." Charity, by definition, is someone giving to another VOLUNTARILY.

When the government seizes taxes from your wages, at the barrel of a gun, that is theft, not charity.

EVERYTHING the gov't gets involved in gets more expensive. Everything. Part of the reason health care here is so expensive is because the gov't is so involved already.

We're Cdns living in the US and we feel "lucky" to pay $350/month for the privilege of SUBSIDIZED HMO insurance....and that's on top of taxes. This is a worst case scenario but why aren't you hearing from the milions of people who are treated for health issues every single day and who aren't drowning in debt or sacrificing futures for hlth care. THIS IS PROPAGANDA pure and simple. Ask a Candadian what they think about this video & they'll laugh.

RayINURay, I've heard how much you Canadians pay in taxes to support your socialist nanny-state, and that makes ME laugh.

This is outrageous. The quality of health care is in the dumps in Hungary (former Communist country), so it makes since if someone goes to Vienna from Hungary if they have a serious problem. But CANADA!!??

You should always have the option of private medical help available to you no matter what!

You are right, mortgaging one's home is only an option for the 70% of Americans who are home owners, and most of them already have health insurance.
I have no problem with a taxpayer subsidy to buy poor people health insurance on the free market. This would cover the 20% of people who can not afford health insurance. But I object to throwing the rest of us in to a socialized system that will reduce our choices, be more inefficient, and result in lower quality care like the VA hospitals.

thousands of Canadians come for the care that their government refuses them. and then we hear complaints about how much America spends on healthcare. America cares for not only Americans but the rest of the developed world that was stupid enough to choose government-controlled health systems.