The reality of Canada's health care system

After viewing Shona's clip, I realized the true magnitude of Canada's health care system. In Canada's attempt to cover most of their population, they had to compromise on quality of care. Shona also made a good point about the role of a consumer and how if you are paying for a good or service, you have the right to demand good quality in a timely fashion. She argues in Canada, citizens are stripped of these rights in terms of health care.

Unfortunately, with our market-based approach, we provide excellent quality in a timely fashion, but are excluding the most vulnerable. We compromised on quantity in favor of supposedly better quality (in terms of Canada that might be true). While Canada's system evidently has some serious flaws as seen in Shona's case, health care is still a right of every human and efforts need to be made to cover the vulnerable populations; who are in the most need of health care and the greatest burden on the health care system. In terms of Canada, I don't believe people should be denied care for an extended period of time, especially in a case similar to Shona's. Countries such as France and Japan are great models to which the US can look towards in order to learn how to expand coverage to include all citizens.