>You may call this an anecdote, but it is the actual experience of a real person and not political marketing slime.

But it is still an anecdote.

Not trying to imply nothing or compare, but I can tell you another anecdote that explains the point of why individual real persons experiences should be taken for that they are, individual experiences that should not be extrapolated. My story starts when I met the brother of a friend I made here. This guy was also from Argentina but he was not a landed immigrant but a refugee claimant, and every time we met he would berate the health care system, claiming that they denied him access to it. Fast forward some years and one fateful day her daughter was struck by a car while she was crossing the street, and for this guy's English was not good at all, my wife volunteered as a translator for his dealings with the lawyer, the insurance company and healthcare. One of the first papers he gave her was the dreadful paper were BC Health "denied" him health coverage, when I read it, it clearly said that for he was a refugee claimant he needed to contact the Federal Health care office, not the provincial. So the guy spent years (6 or so) complaining about nothing! If you hear him you would think that the Canadian Health system was even worse than the Argentinean (the worst consequence of the accident was that the government found out that the lawyer that had handle his refugee claim did not present some paperwork, so he and his family were deported and the funniest thing was that back in Argentina he would say how wonderful was the Health System in Canada!!)