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I live in Canada, a few months back my son wiped out on his bike and split his chin open. We took him to the hospital to get him some stitches, and spent six hours in the waiting room before being seen by a doctor.Privatized healthcare vs public healthcare.
Thankfully, my family has been lucky enough that we very seldom had any type of medical emergency, so this was somewhat of a shock to me.
6 hours in a waiting room with a 5 year old, covered in blood and falling asleep on my lap 4 hours past his bedtime, all the while thinking about the amount of money the government taxes me.
Yes, I would have paid a lot of money at that point just to have an option to take him to a private clinic, but no such option exists here.