Diogenes
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No matter how much you say it, it does not make it true.
I have lived in 2 UHC countries (Britain and Canada) and never have I been told by anyone what treatment I can and couldn't have, but just like HMO's there's certain things that they won't pay for.
A boob job is a good example :mrgreen:
The trouble is that Universal Health Care is, in practice, Unavailable Health Care. Britain and Canada are prime examples. A couple of years ago there was a couple in Calgary who were taking fertility treatments. She came down with a case of quadruplets. Multiples are premature, and preemies need incubators. Calgary (pop. 1,000,000) doesn't have four incubators, so the government sent the couple to Great Falls, MT (pop. 50,000) to have the babies. When the US adopts the Canadian health system, they'll have to go to India or Thailand.