# Thoughts on National Healthcare

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**Created:** [February 2, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204 "2008-02-02T06:55:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204/46 "2008-03-30T19:34:01Z")

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> [@i know another one..lol](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-know-another-one-lol/35728/4):
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> In the last few years, I’ve had about a dozen Canadians in my old gaming clan. Not one of them had or has anything good to say about their national healthcare. Long lines, shitty service, and the list goes on and on.
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> I don’t know about you, but I can’t plan to have appendicities. (sp) That is pretty much what national healthcare amounts to.
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> How long will it take you to get to see a doctor after everybody in the US gets healthcare/medical insurance at the same time?
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> One of my Canadian clan memebers basically said you have to plan your emergency appendectomy. 3 months in advance. God help you if you don’t. or can’t.

I have heard similar stories.

Anything the goverment gets their hands into gets fucked up, healthcare would be no different.

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