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My family and I have Alberta health care coverage, and supplemental insurance provided through my employer that costs me about $80 a month. For that, we have no co-pays, anywhere, 100% drug coverage, and a private hospital room if I need it. I have an excellent doctor in a clinic two miles from my house, and I have not had to wait more than 30 minutes to get in to see her. (I often wait less than 5 minutes.)
I left Houston early last year, where I was an EMT for four years. I remember two patients, a father and son, who had been badly beaten outside their home. We took them to a hospital where the mother said that she wanted her husband, the breadwinner, treated. She said that she could not afford to have her son looked at, and would not allow it. I could never understand how America could be so advanced in so many areas, and yet so cruel when it came to sharing the nation's wealth.
