Maggie's Farm

A health care system that is the envy of the world:

A family member in Canada went to his doctor with chest pains. After numerous tests the doctor told him that without a quadruple bypass he would die within 2 years, BUT since he was 82 the Canadian health care system felt that it was a waste of money to do a bypass on an 82 YO man so they would not do it. No waiting period issue simply that they would not do it because of budget reasons. This man knew he could drive South a couple hundred miles and go to an American doctor and have the bypass done in a week. He could have done it but he was a proud Canadian who always bragged to his American relatives that Canada's health care system was the best in the world and he couldn't bring himself to do it. He choose to keep a stiff upper lip and ride out the inevitable. Even his wife begged him to get the operation in the states but he wouldn't. It would be like admitting that he had been wrong all those years about Canadian health care and that what he paid for all those years was a fraud. He passed away peacefully less than two years later from a massive heart attack in his sleep. His wife was inconsolable. He was a kind and generous man that will be missed by his children, grand children and great grand children.