Dang, even in '59 the Canadians had better health care. But seriously, wow that Doctor was something else! He took the time to find out what was really going on and laid it out for them in no uncertain terms. I felt that this movie told a good story. It had some thought provoking scenarios and I found myself thinking about it again and again.
shareWell, it's better health care in that all can access it (no longer a difference starting in 2014), but worse in that there is a long wait for routine procedures (which may happen in the US as well).
However, in this film, what you see about health care is the same thing you'd see in films of the same period set in the USA.
In fact, quiet often in the US, rural health care was quas-socialistic in that the doctor would generally treat anyone who needed it, and accept whatever a person could afford to pay. It just wasn't set in stone by the government. And in many places, the whole community would band together to get a doctor to come to the town by providing a nice home, some land, and a guaranteed minimal income. That's practically the only way some communities got health care.
Also, in the "frontier" days, there was no restriction on a person who learned doctoring as an apprentice to go into practice, or even many times a person qualfified merely as a nurse or who only completed part of medical school would be the only one around to provide any sort of care.
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The Eyes of the City are Mine! Mother Pressman / Anguish (1987)
We still do not have what the Canadians have. Which is unfortunate, because still people cannot afford the health plans offered. But it is much better then it use to be.
People complain about how expensive heatlh care is here. It is not the gov't plans people are talking about it is the private companies that have made health case unassailable.
What has that got to do with the movie?
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