Comments by "nimrodery" (@nimrodery) on "PragerU" channel.

@tylerandsandiescott2893 ...except for the name or phone number of the clinic that charged you $550 for the ambulance. Makes a guy think you made up a story, since I am familiar with the ambulance charge in Alberta, having been in a car accident there 7 years ago. You lied.
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@tylerandsandiescott2893 You made up the "50 percent insolvency" number, so yes, it is indeed irrelevant.
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@tylerandsandiescott2893 ... and I did ask for the number of the walk-in clinic. You sound dense enough for someone to scam $500 extra for an ambulance ride.
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Justin Trudeau can't write executive orders. He couldn't call in the army for a protest, he couldn't take money from the military to build a fence. Yup, Trudeau sucks, but American politics and politicians are still much much worse.
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@tylerandsandiescott2893 Still waiting for a name on the clinic that charged you $550 for an ambulance. Did you just remember it didn't happen?
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@whatelseison8970 Only non-residents of Alberta are charged that much currently. Do some paperwork, save some money. I reserve the right to be rude to Tyler as he sees requested details as unimportant.
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@ramonpena8448 Because it never happened. When it comes to health care, Canadians complain about wait times, not cost.
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Private health care is an option in Canada. If you have money, you can get surgery very quickly. It's just we also have options for people who don't have tens of thousands of dollars lying around to pay for surgery (also known as "most people").
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@Adir-Yosef cuba has great healthcare. They get fantastic results at low cost using sometimes very outdated equipment. They regularly send doctors around the world to help in crisis. Pound for pound, they do much more with much less than America.
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@BeholderThe1st Wealthy Canadians can get private surgery in Canada, so no, you're not subsidizing us. Plus we sell shitloads of cheap generic drugs to Americans, so there you go. When you get all your info in little bites, you can sometimes miss details that make you much easier prey for the shits that run Prager U.
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@Adir-Yosef But you're lying, so no.
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@darwinrisdon7141 I was able to find numerous options in my own province after a few seconds of searching.
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@darwinrisdon7141 Why? Are your fingers broken? Are you too stupid to operate a computer? Why should I do anything for your lazy ass? Let me tell you, the reason you don't know things is you don't bother to read for yourself, and you expect others to do your work for you. I can't help you there, get off your ass.
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@darwinrisdon7141 Try "findprivateclinics (dot com)" or just Google "Canada private surgery" or, you know, make an effort or something.
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@BeholderThe1st You're simply wrong about the services private surgery clinics provide. I'd link you to some resources but if you can't google "Canadian private surgery surgery" there isn't much hope. There's a ban on insurance companies covering medically necessary procedures, but of course those services are available at private clinics. Unless you're telling me the public system doesn't do knees, hips, general surgery, urology, gynecology and more. Yeah, heart bypass isn't easily available, but that isn't the reason private clinics don't want to perform that kind of surgery. The liability in taking on heart or brain surgery when there's a public option doesn't make much sense, at least to me, and of course private clinics offer additional services hospitals don't. The point about drugs related to the imagined subsidization of American healthcare. The dollar amount in Canadian surgeries performed in America is likely similar to money saved by Americans buying Canadian drugs (since America isn't the only country some visit for surgery). The idea that one country is subsidizing the other because somebody bought a product on a market was already pretty non-sequitur. The argument that we're subsidized by American pharmaceutical companies is a bit suspect, too. Big pharm only charges Americans top dollar for drugs. The rest of the world gets reasonable prices. Only in America, the place with corporate socialism, do giant corporations with a history of price gouging and delinquent safety protocols somehow look "decent." You remember how they pushed opiods on America so they could get money? I do.
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@BeholderThe1st "Regardless of this legal issue, many do offer such services." Thanks for the link. Took me a few seconds. Until the Cambie clinic trial is over, the rules are kind of out the window.
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@BeholderThe1st You didn't look too hard. Back, spine, hip surgery isn't elective. Private clinics are offering necessary surgery in defiance of the court because there's no ruling yet. If one of these clinics gets shut by the Canadian government, the gov will have to explain why Canadians don't deserve or need freedom of choice. That isn't going to happen. I have no idea why you can't find what I found in a few seconds.
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@BeholderThe1st No, Canadian law allows these services because undecided cases aren't considered legal precedent. I'm sorry your "drilling down" didn't yield any results when I was able to find services in multiple provinces. You say you aren't lazy, so that leaves a pretty realistic scenario.
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@BeholderThe1st In short, cases that are undecided aren't considered legal precedent. The law is being challenged as it violates Canadian's rights. That's why services are available. If you choose not to use those services, that's your business. I certainly didn't choose not smoking pot when it was illegal, because it was a shit law that makes no sense. Violating shit laws that make no sense is a form of protest. If you feel bad about breaking an unjust law, good for you. You're exactly the sort of person your government would like to clone. The rest of us are happy making decisions that benefit us.
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@Spartan322 For someone so adverse to reason your comments are way too long.
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@darwinrisdon7141 He said "Then improve your system. Don’t trade functioning or fixable services on the logic of ‘meh big government sucks’." Then you waited for a few weeks to reply.
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@Spartan322 You didn't say you were adverse to reason, your comment displayed that in spades. Arguing the merits of one system vs another isn't "changing the rules," you just like to find trivial reasons to discount arguments. You don't rebut the arguments themselves. LOL "99% logic and reason." Logic and reason don't find themselves so confounded they have to rule out an argument they're unprepared to address.
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@Spartan322 You dismissed arguments based on the merits of each system. You did it repeatedly in the same comment. You accused the other guy of "changing the rules" when he talked about the merits of each system. I read through your comment, there wasn't much logic on display. Basically every paragraph was a variation on "that's not an argument." You dismissed everything. The example is your entire comment.
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@Spartan322 Your response to me is just as bad. You should have to listen to yourself, reading your word salads isn't helping anybody.
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@Spartan322 I'm sorry "your entire comment" isn't specific enough. Don't worry about it, from what I can tell you're not going to get over yourself.
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Really? I didn't know you could have stupid doctors. Why would you intentionally see him?
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We have private surgery in Canada. This guy lied a few times.
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@briansmith8730 When Bernie got a standing ovation on Fox News, asking if Americans would rather be insured by the government than private insurers, it was a pretty strong indicator Americans want healthcare reform. People go broke over this crap. I can't say the Canadian system is better in every way, but we get similar results for much less money, like most developed nations. MRIs are a contracted service, you should be able to schedule privately in Canada (true in Nova Scotia, haven't checked Newfoundland). If you're waiting for one MRI machine in a hospital, I could see your point.
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@grafenr.3405 Canada has had 5 decades of working universal healthcare. So the policy works. No society or people destroyed. If you don't like socialism, just cross Canada and America off your "places to live" list.
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@BUZZTROLLInc Poorer Canadians are taxed at a lower rate, just like poorer Americans. There is no 70 or 80 percent tax rate, nowhere near. You pay twice as much for healthcare, end of story. The market already controls healthcare, what do you think health insurance is? And, please, for God's sake fix the schools, they keep churning out brainless button-pushers like yourself who put their faith in the market (!) and the government (even more '!').
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@BUZZTROLLInc Right, "shouldn't." Short on reasoning, but you have the dogma down.
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@BUZZTROLLInc You didn't give any reasons, you just said "shouldn't" like your ideas explain themselves. Are you high on something?
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@BUZZTROLLInc Oh, and don't be mad about the "button pusher" thing. All Americans are trained the same way, so that you'll vote for one corrupt party over the other corrupt party, like you're told.
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We also didn't have an opiod crisis here, so there's tradeoffs.
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@CH-wg1bh 70 000 deaths in one year and 9000 deaths since 2016 don't compare too well. What we have in Canada is a fentanyl crisis. But by all means, welcome to BC (WTF calls it "British Columbia").
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@CH-wg1bh But thanks for getting me to look at the Coroner's assessment, which included this gem: "No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites." Cool.
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