die hard 4, sicko, star wars

[protoclown]

I saw Live Free or Die Hard and Sicko this weekend, both of which I found to be immensely enjoyable

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[i_mockery]

I had a lot of fun seeing Die Hard as well... I'll have to post my review of it later on in the blog. Have you seen all the Die Hard movies though? I thought you said you hadn't.

I still haven't seen Transformers yet, but I'm in no huge hurry to see it either for obvious reasons.

[protoclown]

Oh, I've seen all the Die Hard movies. I haven't seen the second one since around the time it came out, but I think this new one was almost as good as the first one (though not quite).

[valkyrieblue]

Well...that's a first! Hearing that Sicko isn't all that it's cracked up to be! Thank you for your honest opinion. I've only watched the first one and that was enough.

I have no personal experience on universal health care, but when a close family friend (UK) had to wait 1.5 years to have his knee fixed I dare say I'm a bit pessimistic!!! On the other hand his wife has received excellent care for her cancer treatments. All current systems seem to have their faults. A better film would have shown that case instead of saying the USA is doing "jack shit" once again. Gets to be depressing if you ask me!

[stephie26]

I read a lot of Canadian knitting blogs. The way I understand it you can wait an extremely long time for non-life threatening surgeries and appts. Such as the aforementioned knee surgery. In an emergency that's not life threatening (or time dependent) you can also wait longer than what we would see as a normal emergency room wait time. Overall though it seems that most people expect it, and deal with it accordingly.

In general I look at Michael Moore films like editorials, or opinion pieces in a newspaper. They're based on facts, but completely skewed to his side, and very one-sided. I liked Sicko, and especially after working at United Healthcare with the medicare drug plan; I'm just appalled at what they can get away with; it's sickening.

health care in holland

[anoniem]

hi! here's my foreign health care story: i lived in holland for several years and was unfortunate enough to break my leg after being hit by a car. while this never happened to me in the u.s. leaving me without a similar situation to compare it to, i have to say that i had no complaints with any of the emergency room care or follow up care. the health insurance that i had there was not free like in some countries, but it was so cheap, about 30 bucks a month. And it covered everything (and i mean EVERYTHING.... they don't have such a thing as co-pays or deductibles). i think the only thing it didn't cover was non-emergency dental care, but i could've paid extra for that. they even would have paid for one of my parents to fly there to visit me if i had needed surgery

Canadian health care

[stereobarf]

Welp, I'm Canadian, so I can give a viewpoint on the healthcare issue here. Yes, in many ways it's better than the situation in the States, But there are some major downsides as well. If you need to go to the emergency room for something minor, expect a 6-8 hour wait. There is a severe shortage of doctors so the doctors available are overworked, overtired, and much more likely to make a misdiagnosis or miss important symptoms because of this. Waiting lists for non-life-threatening surgeries can be months. When I had my gallbladder out, I had to wait 3 months (and have it rescheduled to boot) to get it done, during which time I was very sick and could hardly eat anything. A friend of my mom's had to wait a MONTH to have a tumor in her breast removed (it was benign, but if it had been cancerous she could have been in big trouble). My aunt just ruptured her achilles tendon and she had to wait 2 weeks before she could have the surgery to reattach it. On the other hand, you don't have to pay anything to be examined, diagnosed, or for

Re: Canadian health care

[protoclown]

Thanks for responding to this, Cat. Sorry it took me so long to reply, but I haven't been on LJ much lately! Sounds like there are some downsides to your system as well, but it's not like there's ANY perfect system out there, is there?