A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:
in article , Michael Daly at
wrote on 3/25/05 9:36 PM:
On 25-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:
HOSPITALIZATION and SURGERY. It does
not, by law.
Which law? Provide proof.
The supplemental policies _do_ provide for hospitalization and
surgery. It is you who is too ignorant to accept the truth.
Mike
What's he trying to say Mike? That we can't have health insurance? Or that
it can't be used for hospital care?
Neither. I'm saying that no amount of health care insurance in Canada will
get you into a hospital or surgical suite ahead of anyone higher on the
priority list than you. That it may cover all sorts of things that Canada's
socialized medical system doesn't cover is beside the point. If you cannot
use your insurance to guarantee you a room or surgery when YOU need it, not
when the government decides to provide it to you, it's nothing more than
palliative and gives you nothing more than a few perks in the hospital,
provided you don't die waiting to be admitted.
My old medical insurance provided that I could go to any hospital in the
world and get immediate treatment, including admission and surgery as
necessary, without any delay, without any permission from anybody, and it
would pay the bills.
You only get to go into the hospital if some government bureaucrat decides
you "need" to do so, and you "need" to do so more urgently than somebody
else. If they don't think you "need" to be admitted, or if they don't have
room, you're ****ed, and you have to come to the US and pay the full price
for your care.
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Regards,
Scott Weiser
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