stlouiedipalma;1247176 wrote:Here's a good health care story from Canada. I was consulting there in 2010 when one of my buddies from Iowa had a perforated ulcer which required emergency surgery. He was taken to the hospital and the surgery was performed and he recovered in a couple of weeks. A few days after the surgery the plant manager got in touch with me and asked me if I had insurance coverage from the States. I told him that I did, but wanted to know why he asked. It seems that my buddy's insurance provider disallowed his entire claim because he didn't get pre-approval for his surgery and post-surgery care. The Canadians were flabbergasted at this. The company we were consulting for picked up his entire medical bill, however, even though it wasn't work-related.

Not one single worker at that plant was willing to trade what they had in health care coverage for what we "enjoy" in the U.S.