I’ve been watching “Ice Road Truckers” on the History Channel and this week’s episode raised my eyebrows a bit.
It seems that a young Canuck driver named TJ, injured himself while tightening his trailer chains with a come along. The come along broke and sent TJ flying into the side of his trailer, injuring his ribcage. He seemed okay for a couple of days, and then while on one of his runs he started having severe internal pains, shortness of breath and dizziness. He called ahead to an ice camp and they had a medic waiting for him. He had to be flown by medical plane to the nearest hospital. They ran xrays, MRI’s, blood tests and “other tests” and the doctors said he had inflamed muscles and he’d be in pain, but okay. The show mentioned that TJ doesn’t have medical insurance, which as we all know, is no problem as Canada has the greatest FREE Universal healthcare on the planet.
Not so fast. TJ wanted to get out on the road ASAP to start making the $1000/day driving so he could pay his $12,000 medical bill. You got that right, even though he’s a Canadian citizen that needed emergency treatment, the young man has a $12,000 medical bill that he’s responsible for. What gives with that? I thought that no one had to pay and that having insurance is purely optional in Canada. Besides moore, how many Canadians have we seen on this site tell us that they love their healthcare because it’s so darn FREEEEE? No harm, no foul if you’re not covered, working until July to pay your taxes is supposed to foot the bill, or so I thought. Can anyone help me out on this? Why does TJ the Canadian citizen have a medical BILL concerning an injury he sustained in his native land?
Just a hunch, but I’ll bet that moore doesn’t have anything to do with the production of “Ice Truckers”.
