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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:41 am Post subject: One thing I like |
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This may have been mentioned before, whatever.
I walk into a clinic to get a prescription. No waiting. I got it in 3-5 minutes. I paid 3000, thanks insurance card. I go to the pharmacy next door. Another 3-5 minutes. Half price, thanks insurance (which boss covers). Got what I need. Quick and cheap.
I'm just thinking about Canada here...
" Yes, we can make an appointment for you two weeks from Tuesday," where you will wait an hour, etc... |
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Sofa_King
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| One thing I like is the way they eat watermelon. They cut it into little squars and eat it with toothpicks.....mmmm delicious. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| How about customer service telephone lines in Canada? You have to listen to this for 30 minutes "Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line." |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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One can never get enough of dancing promo girls, I feel.
Sparkles*_* |
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MorgolKing
Joined: 18 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| hahaha I can't believe they left the door open....well sadly enough I can |
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kiwiliz
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| lol...try getting an appointment in the UK...you have to ring up on the day you want the appointment and sit on the phone listening to the ...you are in a cue...message for ages! |
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WorldWide
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: Re: One thing I like |
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| jajdude wrote: |
This may have been mentioned before, whatever.
I walk into a clinic to get a prescription. No waiting. I got it in 3-5 minutes. I paid 3000, thanks insurance card. I go to the pharmacy next door. Another 3-5 minutes. Half price, thanks insurance (which boss covers). Got what I need. Quick and cheap.
I'm just thinking about Canada here...
" Yes, we can make an appointment for you two weeks from Tuesday," where you will wait an hour, etc... |
The young single mother who lives on a $5 a day budget, or the elderly man whose family don't care about or support him, or the homeless person, or the plain broke person who doesn't have a job or insurance would probably think differently than you. Yes it's nice you have a comfy insurance policy that allows you fast and easy access to medicine, but if Canada starts to go the route of greedy america where everything is about money, the poor will become the casualties. In Canada medical care if free to everyone. For all Canadians out there, think of how many thousands of dollars you have never had to pay for your healthcare. Now think of how deep you and your family would be in debt if you broke your leg or daddy had a heart attack without an insurance policy...
I will take a bit of a hassle any day, over forsaking an entire class of people because greedy a$$holes want to be at the head of the line. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Worldwide,
Oh, I am certainly not contesting that my friend. I'm just saying how easy and convenient it is here. Canada has saved my arse a bit, as well as others in my family, with the 'freeness' of hospital help.
Believe me, I am the last person to denigrate how wonderful it is to be taken care of in Canada when it is needed. I have been there. My brothers have been there. My mother has been there countless times due to her condition. My father died there: it took a month.
Bills? No worries.
I was simply making a small point for Korea, in how easy it is to walk into a clinic and get what you need fast.
(Don't read into a post aspects that may not appear. I and my father were together in the hospital when he died 15 years ago. Thank God Canada is wonderful enough to help out people who could not pay enough.)
For anyone who denigrates Canada, consider that. |
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: whatever
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| How about customer service telephone lines in Canada? You have to listen to this for 30 minutes "Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line." |
Haha. Start of second year uni and my roommate and I just moved into our new apartment. We need to get a telephone hooked up so we go outside to a payphone and call Telus. It took about 30 minutes to get through (we had to keep plopping quarters into the machine) and then the new connection customer service rep. finally comes on and says, "sorry, the lines are too busy right now. leave your name and number and we'll call you back!!" |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
One can never get enough of dancing promo girls, I feel.
Sparkles*_* |
I feel the same way.. We have so much in common other than your affections for lame NBA teams. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| SarcasmKills wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
One can never get enough of dancing promo girls, I feel.
Sparkles*_* |
I feel the same way.. We have so much in common other than your affections for lame NBA teams. |
Make that lame NBA Championship teams.
Sparkles*_* |
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