{"id":65160,"date":"2017-11-21T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65160"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:33:35","slug":"65160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65160","title":{"rendered":"Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada has national health care, guaranteed free to all citizens.\u00a0 Free that is, if you can get any.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has so few MRI machines that patients go on a waiting list.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouversun.com\/storyline\/wait-times-for-mri-in-bc-longest-in-canada-fraser-institute\">90% of patients get their scans within 9 months<\/a>, the rest take longer.\u00a0 If you only had six months to live, you wouldn\u2019t find out in time to worry about it \u2013 you\u2019d die waiting for a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>But if you could get treatment, it would be free.\u00a0 So that\u2019s way better than our system in the US, right?\u00a0 We should change to their system at once, right?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed &#8211; and I&#8217;ll put this in the form of a progressive blog comments &#8211; that &#8220;proponents of single payer healthcare conveniently omit the terrible outcomes that people get in the UK and Canada&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Canada has national health care, guaranteed free to all citizens.\u00a0 Free that is, if you can get any. Canada has so few MRI machines that patients go on a waiting list.\u00a0 90% of patients get their scans within 9 months, the rest take longer.\u00a0 If you only had six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65162,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65160\/revisions\/65162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}