Free Health...BAH!

Well my vent today is long overdue and I hope I feel better after its written down....just too bad no one will see it.

I am talking about Canada's Health policies. Everyone seems to brag that here in Canada we get free health care..........they lie! There is a price for everything in this day and age and although we don't pay in dollars and cents....we pay....oh boy do we pay.

This is basically how it goes... You go to a clinic with your ailment....you take a number. Last time I had 86 and I think there were at least 80 ahead of me. Anyway you are asked what your problem is and if it doesn't sound fatal you're told to go sit and wait. While you wait in this germ contaminated room of people of all ages-mostly children-these little darlings scream, yell and touch every chair, magazine and kleenex box available. Minimum 4 hours later you might be called in to sit in a cubicle for another period of time. Smaller room but just as many bacteria floating around from the previous visitors. The Dr ( who never saw you before in your life) asks what he can do for you. No questions about your background, previous problems....nuttin' So you tell him your symptoms or whatever and he must figure you know the problem so he takes a peek in the ears and the "ah" thing and say "ok we'll fix that sinus problem" Gets out that handy prescription pad sitting right beside him and scribbles off whatever.Out the door you go a hell of a lot faster than you came in. He's laughing all the way to the bank! Next!

2 months later the pain is still with you and you're family Dr is booked solid for another 2 weeks. You have another option....oh yeah we have options! That's what our TV ads would like us to believe but they are just being political with elections zooming.

Our other option is to go to emergency at our 1 and only emergency room in a city of 100 thousand people and do the "sit and wait" procedure all over again.!! This to me is no option....its just a change of venue,with a longer wait.

I suppose I am luckier than a lot of people to have a family Doctor BUT she is married, has 3 children of her own and only works when the spirit moves her.So getting an appoinment is like opening the barn door before the horse gets stolen.

When I finally did get to the appointment....what did I get?? a resident doctor, while mine walked around with a stethoscope around her neck! I was not impressed, considering how long I had been one of her first patients when she went into private practice.

So after I went through the story with the resident....she informed me she had to confer with her boss and would be back. At least she had my info on record on the computer to check my past test results etc.

When she returned she had a book that would have been Gulliver's bible and she was flippin' pages back and forth, tryin to find the name of some drug she was going to give me.

I was not a happy camper when I left let me tell you.

The lack of Doctors in Canada is pathetic, because they all head south where they can charge exorbitant prices for patients visits but they seem to get the care and attention we don't here.Here government makes the rules and the Dr's have to abide by them, as far as charges go.

There are some human Dr's out there, but in my estimation, most are in a hurry to get rich and we as human beings become cattle in a pen getting castrated. ....or branded.

Im hoing this "magic" pill works this time and the pain subsides because Im tired of it and the way I have been treated by this "Free" Health system. Where oh where are the caring doctors of old who even came to your house if you were too ill to go to them? where are the ones who know your name before looking at a piece of paper first? where are the ones who go by the problems and don't look at the clock to see that you didn't run overtime ????If you go into a doctor's office here in Canada there are more "Please do not" signs than magazines in the book rack.

Im not done yet......still venting