Health Care Madness

"I am a caring person and we have people dying in the streets because they can't afford health care," says my liberal co-worker. It is amazing how liberals actually think that because they are motivated by emotion (and not facts), then any way contrary to theirs must be cold and heartless.
All motivation aside, what matters are results, not motive or intent. While our medical system is still (thankfully), for the most part, driven by the almighty dollar, it is by far more caring. Why? Because while socialist systems such as Canada's are good at ensuring that everyone, even the motivationally challenged, receive basic care, these countries' pale in comparison to the U.S. in cutting edge medical innovation that saves lives on the brink of death. No other country has the same rates of diagnostic use or survival of serious illness such as cancer or heart disease.
So, which do you think is more caring? 1. A system that levels out the quality of care so that even the worst members of society can have basic needs met; or number 2. A system where your grandfather, who was a school teacher and middle class worker all his life, receives a heart bypass the very same day as detection of said problem. While those that refuse to work and provide for themselves must uncomfortably wait in an emergency room where they still receive the most modern care for free.
That was my grandfather, by the way. If we lived in Canada; according to the statistics his wait for surgery would have been weeks at least, which may have been too long considering the shape he was in.
So which is it, Mediocrity for All, in the name of fairness? Or Top-notch for those that work, with certain "safety net" measures for those who refuse to contribute to society. Those are the only choices.
Tell me, if you were diagnosed with cancer, which country do you hope to be living in?????