Hmm well, now that we're definitely on the subject anyway... i'll share another fun story about why AMERICA's healthcare system blows ass, and why Canada's can save your ass...
My friend rebecca, who I used to work with could not afford healthcare... thats what happens when you have college loans out the ass, and cant get a qualifiable job to pay for much more than said loans because the economy just tanked. We were lappin the park at Heavenly last season and she overshot a jump because she was going huuge, and she's pretty much a ballsy bitch. She compression fractured 3 of her vertebre on the landing... and she was more scared shitless when the ski patrol came than she was that she just literally broke her back... NOBODY should be SCARED when medics come to help you... they should feel like their savior has come and they can stop freaking out so much.
anyways they took her down, examined her... and told her basically what she figured anyway - that her back was fucked and she should definitely see a doctor.
It's beens said that in canada you have to do all this waiting around to get the help you need, well.. so did she.She took out a loan, and got medical coverage for a 6 month period. it took a week 1/2 for all that to get cleared, and about another week before she could get an appointment to meet with a doctor about it, and eventually, about 3 weeks after the incident, she got an Xray, and they were able to get her a temporary back brace, and some medicine for the pain she had been trying to subdue for the previous 3 weeks with half a bottle of tylenol per day... She's fine now... and she has medical insurance but she's now gotta pay back a pretty crappy high interest loan, (on top of her already terrible college loans) and thats FAR worse than any yearly taxes would be...