hahaha... I am sure glad that I live in CANADA!!.. it's allll free

@Tarynkd I don't think it is right of you to criticise people for being misinformed when you yourself are very terribly mistaken on this subject. I am a 15 year old Canadian, and I believe that we have a great system over here. I’m not saying it’s perfect, but if focuses on getting the people who can’t afford care, the treatment and medicine they need to live. I have had many illnesses over the years which have made me in need of a doctor. We have a family doctor, which my family has chosen (some Americans believe we don’t get to choose our own doctors but we do) and whenever I do need to see my doctor, we just call and I can get in to see him later that day, not months later. Also, the government doesn’t choose if we need the surgery or not. It is accepted under our healthcare as long as it prevents or treats any pain or life threatening diseases or conditions. My Mom had a herniated disk a couple years ago and needed surgery. It took 1 month to get an MRI, but you usually get in faster if you need it for something more life threatening such as a head injury, and after the MRI surgery was scheduled right away for a couple months later. All this cost us nothing. I looked it up, and in America, it would have cost us probably over $20,000, plus another couple thousand for medication and the MRI. Again, this cost our family NOTHING. This past year I had a lung infection. I went to our nearby clinic and waited in the waiting room for less than an hour and got in to see the doctor. He prescribed me antibiotics and we went to the drugstore in the same building and got the medication. We got back to our house in under and hour and everything was free. Even for specialists. I started getting migraines last summer so I needed to see a neurologist. I went to the neurologist after a week, waited in the waiting room for 15 minutes and then had an hour of testing and then was prescribed medication for my migraines. All this was free. Even for eye doctors and dentists (which my family is also covered for under blue shield with my fathers work) we get a letter in the mail every 6 months telling us to go in for our regular eye and dental check ups. If we need anything else during the year concerning our eyes or teeth, we can call and be in that day. And yes, America is the only developed country that doesn’t have universal healthcare. So hmm… if America is the only developed country that doesn’t have healthcare, and all the other ones do, doesn’t that make America likely to be wrong? So yes, you can stay in America, and pay tens of thousands of dollars to have “whatever the **** you want”, so stay there and have your nose jobs and boob jobs and if you get sick, pay even more money. But I would like to stay in Canada where everything is free, especially for the poor who can’t afford it. Canada is a great country so don’t go insulting it when you’re too lazy to check your own facts and then call everyone else misinformed. So to sum it up, **** YOU because Canada is an amazing country to live in, and it’s Americans like you that should go die in a hole somewhere. You are a disgrace to your country.

This is probably BS. There is no fee for removing a cast. It is included in the fee for putting it on. Also, dislocated elbows are almost never casted. I work for an orthopedic surgeon and this story has more holes than my underwear. Plus you gotta be stupid to write "$50 dollars".

A mighty wall of text that is useless at stopping American influence.

@MsTs1 You're an idiot, do some research before spouting bullshit. I live in England. I broke my leg a couple of years ago. I was picked up by an ambulance 5 mins afterwards, taken to A&E, x-rayed and in a cast 3 hours later. The cast was removed 5 months later for free. If it is an emergency, you can be treated in the UK within minutes/hours.

I would have done the same thing if I had to pay... $50 for a two minute procedure that just basically requires a pair of scissors, no thanks. But then again if I had to pay every time I had a small worry about my body and wanted to get it checked over by a doctor I would probably never go...

Why didn't you have trusted friend to saw it off? Pulling casts off *never* work. (Well, sawing debatably shouldn't work, but it's a little better than simply pulling it off).

You idiot! You should be careful...or saw it off...

What is all the crap I see Republicans spouting on CNN about socialism? What Obama is proposing is almost the exact same thing the Canadian CONSERVATIVE Party wanted to introduce a couple of years ago. It never even got to a vote in parliament because it so widely rejected by the electorate for being too conservative. Two-tier health care is the exact opposite of socialism. Also, conservatives need to to stop confusing socialism with a form of governance, socialism and communism are not the same thing. It is an economic system, not a political system.

YDI for being a cheap ass