(10-21-2012, 12:16 AM)Hammerskjold Wrote: It's more than a stretch however to compare that to what you think Canadian health care isEr, but I wasn't. The incident just laid bare the choice I had to make. Thankfully it was a cat. With people we wouldn't have. If there is a way, we mostly try it.
Quote:'Billion dollars procedures' is a myth. At least in Canada.I just pulled a really big number out of the air. I don't know what the most expensive procedures cost.
Quote: Then imply that's how Canada works.Well, good, cuz I didn't. I said, " Yes, it's a cat. But, it made me think about the economics of the care we'd like, versus the care we can afford. If you were paying for it, I may have opted for the expensive route (with all the risks of complications) with perhaps a worse outcome." I couldn't afford it and I was pretty sure the cat would die. If someone ( a rich uncle, or Deebye) had offered to pay for it, when we might have gone with the surgery. It turned out for the better without it. It had nothing to to with Canadian health care, except for Deebye's nationality -- if he would have forked over the $5000 to save my cat.
Quote: Congrats on getting the triple reverse honor list of Commie-dian's ignore list. You've joined such luminaries as Pete, Deebye, I'm not sure if Jester is in there but I'd hazard a guess he's at least an honorary member emeritus?I was thinking that it might not be right to yank away his crutches. Then I thought, "Hell, these crutches are bringing him nothing but pain in his life anyway."