Steven Crowder has just done a remarkable expose on Canada’s healthcare system, where he actually went to Canada and attempted to get treatment, as well as speaking with multiple people who could tell horror stories of their own about their experiences with socialized medicine. It’s twenty minutes well spent, believe me.

Given my own first-hand experiences with socialized medicine in the UK, let me tell you, what you’ve seen in this video is certainly not an exception to the rule. Everything you saw here is the every day reality of living under socialized medicine. It does nothing to bridge the gap of poverty and ensure greater quality of care for all people. All it does is ensure that all of us suffer, while the uber-rich can still get quality care. More of us right now in the United States, despite the faults that currently exist in our system, still have more access to better quality care than in any other nation. I’ve seen the NHS up close and personal, and believe me, no American would ever stand for that sort of treatment. No American would tolerate waiting up to a year for a single 5-minute appointment with a specialist; no American would tolerate waiting six months to a year for a simple MRI; no American would tolerate being denied the care they need just because the government has decided your life isn’t worth it, even though you’re still being forced to pay taxes to cover the care some bureaucrat doesn’t think you deserve.
Choice is always the best option. Do you really want to face having only one option for healthcare? Just think about it for a minute! Any time in history, in any nation, has a monopoly in any market ever, ever produced a multitude of cheaper, higher quality products to more people? No! And furthermore, has the government – hell, any government – any run any sort of program that was efficient and cost effective? Yet again, the answer is no! Why? Simply because their jobs aren’t dependent on things being run smoothly, efficiently, and cost-effectively, so they have absolutely no incentive to keep things in line with the demands of their consumers.
The bottom line is, when your health is on the line, when your life is hanging in the balance, how do you want your doctors to treat you – like a customer who’s always right, or a poorly leech on an already over-burdened system, who should frankly be grateful for any care they receive at all?

As every other nation on earth that employs universal healthcare is – at this very moment – acknowledging the failure of their socialist models and choosing to revert to a freer more capitalistic model, it boggles my mind that somehow we’re still blindly stumbling along the very same destructive, expensive, and deadly path of absolute failure that they’re already rejecting after decades of experiencing the hardships that it inevitably creates. In this day and age where we can instantly communicate with anyone anywhere in the world, why is it that we don’t see more of the truth about the day to day realities of socialized medicine? We are blinding ourselves about the consequences of one of the biggest decisions our government will ever make! Please, let’s educate ourselves before we leap blindly toward the very same mistakes that other nations have already proven to be abject failures. One day, your life – or the life of someone you love – may very well depend on it.

Huge thanks to Steven Crowder for taking the time to put this video together. Perhaps it will show even one more person the reality of socialized medicine.

As someone who has actually spent a good amount of time in a liberal, socialist-inclined country, I’ve often thought how most American liberals would feel after experiencing things like socialized health-care, government-controlled media, and so on. Every time yet another actor says, “If the Democrat doesn’t win the white house, I’m moving to Canada!” I can’t help but think, “Okay, have fun!” If people really, really want to live in a socialist country that badly, there are plenty of them out there to choose from. Please, go there, see how you like it, see how long it’ll be before you’re dying to come back here after paying such high taxes, not getting seen by doctors, not being able to afford the cost of living, et cetera. There’s just no excuse, our world is so easy to get around in, it’s so easy to communicate over long distances in an instant, so why not? Why not go experience that and leave America as one of the last bastions on earth that’s free from socialism!
Well, apparently I’m not alone in that, because I just found this, and I laughed. Oh boy did I laugh! Check it out.

Now, I love Canada and all; mounties are awesome, hockey’s great, I love how polite they are, Cirque du Soleil is brilliant, I love the cold weather, and I’ve even heard that poutine is at least tolerable! I adore Canada and Canadians, but I can’t say I agree with their approach to government. But that’s peachy for them! I’m not Canadian, I wouldn’t dare to tell another country how they should run their government or how their citizens should elect their representatives! (*eye roll* I’m looking at you, rest of the world, with so many of you butting into our elections and telling us how we should run our country! I don’t do that to you, please don’t do it to me!)
But seriously, I just don’t get how people here could fight so hard for socialistic principles without really finding out what it’s really honestly like to live in a socialist country. You wouldn’t say pizza’s your favorite food without tasting it first, would you? Go on, experience it! Pay the crazy high taxes, go into the debt, deal with the unemployment, deal with the inflation, deal with the extensive government control of *everything*, try to get health-care when you really need it most (i.e. like me, when your life depends on it), and try to even make small choices outside the government-mandated social norms. Go see how much fun that is, then come back and see if you still want to fight for those same controls here.
Or hell, can’t we just at least keep one country on Earth for those of us who don’t want socialized everything? Please? You can have yours, the rest of us can have ours, and we can all share like nice grown ups, right?

Of course, it still baffles me how the majority of liberals I know have so little faith in government, absolutely distrust the system, some of them even downright cling to crazy conspiracy theories about government mind control. And yet these people want to hand the government even more control than it already has? Well knock me over with a feather, cause that just makes no sense to me whatsoever.

So anyway, the next time someone stamps their foot like a two-year-old and says, “That’s it, if I don’t get my way, I’m moving to Canada!”, I’ll be the first to hand them the application form. If you’re that unhappy, go try it out for a while and then tell me how you feel about it, k?