I would contend that the average homeless person in Detroit has better healthcare coverage than the average person accross the river in Windsor Ontario.    Any hospital in Detroit will admit a homeless person and treat emergencies at no fee.   In Windsor Ontario (one of the 10 largest cities in Canada) they shut down all emergency rooms due to lack of funding.   A person I take voice lessons with told me her mother lives in Canada and was very ill.   Every emergency room in Windsor turned her down.   She called her doctor who advised her to dehydrate her 85 year old mother until she was near death which would force the hospital to accept her.   As I stated earlier, I would contend that a homeless person in Detroit would have better healthcare.

Last September, my 75 year old mother needed hip replacement surgery. She made an appointment with her doctor and scheduled surgery two weeks later.    Last month she had her other hip replaced.   Also a two week scheduling process.   Both surgeries went very well.   In Canada, there is currently a 9 month waiting period for hip replacement surgery.   That means if my mother lived in Canada she would still be in pain waiting for her ist hip surgery.   Tell me how that is compassionate.   I guess that since every one suffers equally it is compassionate.   NO thanks.   I prefer the US system.

Everyone in the USA is entitled to quality healthcare. All they have to do is pay for it.