Ontario nurses fleeing Canada for American jobs

[Margaret's boy]

It's not the same old story. I've witnessed loved ones being failed by our troubled health care while those with deep pockets can go anywhere to access the best health care. It's time the chattering classes in Canada shut up, quit drinking the propaganda our political establishment feeds us through the media, and listen to the nurses, who are the true champions of Canadian health care.

[401don]

It's not the same old story. I've witnessed loved ones being failed by our troubled health care while those with deep pockets can go anywhere to access the best health care. It's time the chattering classes in Canada shut up, quit drinking the propaganda our political establishment feeds us through the media, and listen to the nurses, who are the true champions of Canadian health care.

Exactly where do those with deep pockets go within Canada? Obviously they can pay and get the care in the U.S., the same as wealthy Americans. If you think our system favors the wealthy, you must really hate their system. If the U.S. had universal care, like every other industrialized country in the world, the pay structures would be similar to ours and Canadian doctors and nurses wouldn't be going there.
My wife needed a special stent for her brain a few years ago and our gov't flew in the stent and a surgeon from California to oversee the procedure. The cost of that, excluding the surgery, was $40,000.

[canuck]

It's not the same old story. I've witnessed loved ones being failed by our troubled health care while those with deep pockets can go anywhere to access the best health care. It's time the chattering classes in Canada shut up, quit drinking the propaganda our political establishment feeds us through the media, and listen to the nurses, who are the true champions of Canadian health care.

My health care heroes are assistant nurses. Beyond that, we can root for nurses, assistants and orderlies, but let’s not forget that if you need some surgery, it’s nice to leave that in a surgeon’s able hands, too.