Canadian health care works

I have BlueCross/Shield. I worked in Canada and am outraged by lies propagated about universal health care.

There were no delays in Canada. Here, I waited over a month for a general practitioner, a specialist and then an endoscopy.

After evacuating my guts for 24 hours, I waited two hours for the “over-booked” procedure. It took two nurses and three tries to get an IV, equipment malfunctioned, I nearly passed out, the medical doctor asked me to list meds, which I submitted twice earlier.

I waited a month for follow-up, over an hour for that, two months for another scoping, an hour before that, more IV hell, months for follow-up and over an hour waiting for that.

I spent a total of 20 conscious minutes with the doctor to no avail. If foreign powers forced us to beg and cower for costly medical services, we would revolt. Yet we blat along like sheep led to slaughter and absorb lie after lie without lifting our heads.

Cartoonist Michael Ramirez (July 14) draws the most negative and ugly political cartoons with ignorance of the facts. He thinks that Americans don’t deserve the truth.

We must demand it or die. The latter might reduce waiting.

David T. Webb

Spokane