Luigi Mangione is a hero
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Lol, yeah, as if government insurance would be less fucked.
In Canada, it is actually illegal to provide private healthcare (except crystal healing, homeopathy, reiki, etc, so long as you have a loicense) so what happens is: you just don't get it.
Rather than you getting your operation or procedure and then having to deal with the money situation, you get put on a wait list with the hope that you die before your turn comes up. If this causes you pain, the government introduced Medical Assistance in Dying (the government can take my life, but it's still illegal for me to be an hero on my own terms).
That's your entire choice under government healthcare: wait to die of preventable disease or opt to take a dirt nap voluntarily.
maybe theres a middle ground, whereby you can pay to be bumped up the queue, but this would probably be exploited - and sure, well take ur money, no movement.