Comment by llm_nerd

I will always choose properly funded universal healthcare over the US model, and my disagreement was with the claim that somehow the Canadian system wouldn't yield a reduction in resources because of some unique quality of universal/non-profit healthcare. Of course resources would be rebalanced if some part of healthcare could be done with less, and if the administration could cut budgets because a model lets them hit the same benchmarks with less, they absolutely, unequivocally will. And then they'll give themselves a fat bonus.

As to the mental health holds, here in Canada we have a problem with social workers encouraging difficult cases to consider medically assisted suicides, which is pretty disgusting. We have people dying on waiting lists. We have people having to go to the US to get basic imagining of probable cancer cases.

Universal healthcare is superior -- again assuming proper funding, which jurisdictions like Ontario are far, far short of -- but in the current state of the Canadian system, I would never imagine bragging about it online.