[MD_Willington_1976]

I can tell you from growing up in Canada that the system is really abused...People get so used to going into the emergency room with the sniffles it becomes second nature and it has been going on for decades...it was a real shocker for my wife to find out that we have a copay for going to the ER down here in WA...It opened her eyes to the background costs...

My mother-inlaw and sister-inlaw really over use it too, They are up in Alberta, any time my neice or nephew get sick it's off to the ER..I tell them to stop doing it because the DR is just gonna get mad at them and tell them to take the kids to the regular DR...then they phone us up and complain that the DR is mean to them...

boohoo frickety hoo...

I hate it up there and don't want to go back, If I'm gonna be paying for someone elses medical then they may as well move in with my family...at least that way I feel like I'm not totally being ripped off with taxes..

[marlon]

Yeah and the cost there is $121 billion. Let's see they're about 10% in population size to us and I would say they have 35% fewer services so if we followed their model that would make it roughly hmmmm $1,7 trillion per year. now let's add that to our current $2.1 trillion budget and we're at $3.8 trillion per year. And that we'll be frugal and take out let's say $500 billion that's not going to have to be paid twice and that get's us to a paltry $3.3 trillion budget.

Hey the dems are right they sure know how to reduce deficits!