Not necessarily better, but different. Basic healthcare is free, but vision, dental, and prescription drugs are not (for most people at least), nor are elective surgeries.
Getting a doctor’s appointment can take weeks, getting a specialist appointment can take months (for example, I was referred by my doctor to a endocrinologist in April, but I’m not being seen until September), and non-urgent stuff has long waiting times.
I had a stroke in 2007 in Virginia and was seen by a neurologist within five hours and admitted to the hospital for a week that evening. My cost for a week in the hospital was $40,000 before insurance, about $1900 after. I saw the neurologist and cardiologist immediately after, but they screwed the pooch when not diagnosing me with a hole in my heart that caused blood clots to form and get spun to my brain.
I had a second stroke in 2015 in Ontario. I was admitted to the hospital within a couple of hours, and my cost for a week in the hospital was zero. But the follow-up doctor’s visits (neurologist and cardiologist) were months apart (March 2016 for the neurologist and May 2016 for the cardiologist). But then the procedure to close the hole in my heart was in July 2016. This is purely anecdotal, yes, but I believe that it’s at least somewhat representative.
TL;DR: Both the American and Canadian healthcare systems have their pros and cons, and neither is necessarily better than the other.
And in my country the language they speak in the US is “American”.
And I hate my home country. It’s slowly being turned to crap. Not a fan of Canadians either, my ex husband was Canadian and well, there’s a reason he’s my ex.
But I really don’t think this is a good thread for this forum. Honestly.
I don’t remember the sponsor having an income requirement for family sponsorship (my wife didn’t have one), but that may have changed since I emigrated in 2011.
And my Canadian friend got a fiance visa in like eight months, but her work permit came in like six weeks. The American system is weird.
Trust levels are a participation system on the forums. The more you post, like, reply, read, and visit the forums, the more you work your way to a higher trust level. Increased Trust levels grant additional privileges. Everyone who is new starts off at Trust Level 0 but will quickly climb by reading and visiting the forums within their first few days.
TRUST LEVEL 0
Trust level 0 users cannot:
Flag posts
Post more than 3 topics
Post more than 10 replies
TRUST LEVEL 1
Get to trust level 1 by…
Entering at least 5 topics
Reading at least 30 posts
Spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts
Users at trust level 1 can…
Post unlimited topics and replies
Edit wiki posts (more on Wiki Posts Below)
Flag posts
Create links and video embeds to trusted websites like Blizzard websites, YouTube, or Twitch
TRUST LEVEL 2
Get to trust level 2 by…
Visiting at least 15 days, not sequentially
Casting at least 1 like
Receiving at least 1 like
Replying to at least 3 different topics
Entering at least 20 topics
Reading at least 100 posts
Spend a total of 60 minutes reading posts
Users at trust level 2 can…
Have an increased “like” count.
TRUST LEVEL 3
Get to trust level 3 by…
Must have visited at least 50% of last 100 days
Must have replied to at least 10 different topics
Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 500 topics
Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 20,000 posts (both starting posts and replies)
Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.
Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
Must not have been suspended (including forum suspensions or in-game account actions of any Blizzard game)
Trust Level 3 users can
Create Wiki Posts (more on that below)
Post animated gifs, images, compatible video embeds, and links to any website
For regular users, even if you are Trust Level 3 on the Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, or BlizzCon forums, your forum stats and trust level will be different here.
(New Forum Guide - Syntax and Features)
That is from the front page of the Forum GD stuff that is pinned.
If you have ever been silenced, or given a forum vacation, it affects whether or not you will receive TL3, or get it back. I had it for a long time, said something sarcastically verbatim back to someone, I was silenced, and lost my TL3…which then brought me to the conclusion that it’s a stupid system, something to be held over ppl in these forums for some popularity forum channel, ability to post gifs and links w/o spaces etc…who needs it. I say what I say, if I get reported and silenced again for a couple days/weeks/forever…whatever. I’m not mean by any spectrum of many here, but I also speak my mind and some ppl don’t like/cannot handle that, even if it’s tactful. lol
This is very true. I had to wait four months for a cystectomy. At the time they weren’t sure if it was ovarian cancer or endometriosis. It ended up being stage IV endometriosis.
I went maybe whatever years ago when you didnt need a passport to drive across the boarder. I dont remember much but I think we were 19 we could buy drinks.
