[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

I AM CANADIAN! PLEASE, READ ON,

I will let you in on a SECRET about our health care:

IT IS FREE!!!!!!!FREE I SAY, FREE!!!!

I pay about 48% in taxes, mostly goes to pay the health care system. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I GET for 48%, LET ME START.

I get 7-15 HOURS of waiting time in the emergency room.

I get to wait 3 months to see a doctor so he can tell me that I need to wait another YEAR to have a surgical procedure done.

I get to go to DOCTORS for NOTHING JUST SO THEY can CHARGE the government.

I broke my fingers, and you know, the doctors put it in a cast, and I thank them for it, but 3 years later (NO OPERATION only therapy) I still have misery making a fist. They did NOTHING, my mother could have told me what the doctors said to me. ALL THEY DID WAS GIVE ME APPOINTMENTS SO THEY CAN CHARGE THE GOVERNMENT.

Oh yeah - did I mention that we don't have a military - I am sure you heard about the second hand (pre owned) submarines we bought from Great Britain, one of the subs while being transfered to Canada caught fire and killed a marine...

We are broke, our system is broke!!!!

This is what KERRY will get you - OUR SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK!!!

[badpacifist]

I hear they get free dental care in England.

[vrwcagent0498]

You're a great American! ;)

Thank you for posting this. But I have to say that I'm cynical on this particular issue--I think it's going to happen here because too many people see free health care as a "right". JMHO.

[eagle11]

I understand that not only is the Canadian healthcare system in trouble, the British, French and German systems are headed for insolvency. Kerry knows he cannot really deliver on "universal healthcare", he uses this rhetoric to fire up his base.

[Damifino]

A very good friend of my brother was Canadian and died because of the poor healthcare system in Canada. I met the man a few times. He was retired and had developed cancer. He was not able to get into medical care for months after the discovery. He swore that being retired and not paying into the tax system there puts you on the "don't waste the Canadian government's money" list. He was a good guy, fun to fish with.

[PistolPaknMama]

I pay about 48% in taxes, mostly goes to pay the health care system.

I guess the rest goes to paying for that boondoggle gun registration system?

Geez, I feel for ya! What, if anything, is going on up there to change things. I can't imagine how you stand it!

[Henchman]

Medical care will never cost so much as when it is free!

[canadiancapitalist]

You think that's bad. 15 years ago (when I was 19) I had a severe stroke that nearly killed me. I'm still partially paralyzed. I went to St. Patrick's in Toronto almost two months before it happened. I was always dizzy and vomitting. My left side would get very weak and I would collapse. I had severe headaches. Classic signs of an impending stroke. The doctor refused to give me an MRI (instead he gave me a blood test) and sent me on my way. Two months later I woke up completely paralyzed in a hospital bed.

[fortheDeclaration]

OOOOOH Nooooo!

I already cast my vote for Bush!

When I could have had free health care!

Why didn't someone tell me!!!

[BillF]

When we FReep the leftists in DC, one of our favorite chants is:

SWIM TO CUBA, SWIM TO CUBA
FREE HEALTHCARE, FREE EDUCATION

In spite of the free healthcare in Cuba, few seem to be moving there.

[Verginius Rufus]

In one of his recent columns Mark Steyn talked about 600 people a year dying just in the Province of Quebec from an ailment basically caused by filthy conditions in the hospitals.

[chuknospam]

Look, I've tried to explain this to the GD Democrats vowing to vote for Kerry just because of the Free Health Care. You already have Medicare!!!!, You have Medicade!!!! How's it working? Huh???? You say you have to buy supplimental Medicare insurance?? Part A and Part B???? You still have to pay even with that?????? And you think somehow what Kerry is proposing is going to be better????????? WTF, Over???

%95 of the funds for Universal Healthcare will support the gov't buracracy and %5 if you're lucky, will filter down to American patients.

Now, lets examone the Bush medical savings plan. %100 of your money goes into a tax exempt account lowering your tax liability like an IRA, %100 of your money comes back to you in the time of need.

Haven't stupid Democrat voters heard of cutting out the middle man???? Oh, lets go on, lets go with Social Security. How many SSI offices are in US citys? How many SSI employees are there? How much money (%) from your SSI payroll deduction goes to support the gov't buracracy and what is left for you?

Stupid Socialist Democrats won't realize their folly until it's too late.

[GMMAC]

Note that in Canada things will only continue to get worse:

Every year socialist health-care sucks up additional increased funding well in excess of the rate of inflation and yet each year the level of "service" goes further down hill.

Why? Because Canada's public health-care system is now totally politically driven (like an asylum run by the inmates) Rather than going into general patient care, money goes to a host of pet projects for radical special interest groups like gays and feminists and goofy, politically correct items like "native tongue", outreach programs for immigrants. Since everything is "government", there's no check and balance between labor and management so hospital workers' unions treat the system as a massive make-work project while administrators of some major urban hospitals (who are bean-counters - not doctors) are pulling down salaries 3 and 4 times higher than what the damned Prime Minister makes!

This is precisely what Hilary tried for and what America will yet have if it's foolish enough to elect Kerry!

[Waco]

Dental care is free? Yep, the most dentist free in the world!

[Windcatcher]

They have national health care in Greece and my relatives over there tell us (their words) that we'd have to be out of our minds to want it here. They said that the quality is so terrible that they all pay for private health insurance so they don't have to rely on it. According to them, the only people who use the national system are people who are out of work and have no other choice.

[jackday]

Thank you for your post. I am a physician at a very large clinic in SE MN and you cannot believe some of the stuff that comes out of the Canadian system. People going deep into debt, because they can't get a simple thing like parathyroidectomy done in the face of life threatening calcium levels!

[knak]

I wish you could post this on the cover of ever paper in America.

[Twinkie]

I'm so sorry. The Democrat Party and the RINO's here have
succeeded in culling themselves out an automatic voting
base that is based on entitlements. They want to increase
this base until it composes about 60% of the population so
power will always be in their hands, with the other 40%
of us slaving away 9 months out of the year just to foot
the bill for this huge "automatic Democrat voting bloc".
Oh, they'll toss the rest of us a peanut in the form of
"health insurance", for which we'll still have to pay huge
premiums and they'll also control this and it will be like
everything else the government gets its hands on. -
So sorry about your trials with the "health care industry".

I'm just trying to get as healthy as I can and stay out of
the doctor's office as much as I can. This whole election
which I call, "The Culmination of John Kerry's Master Plan
for His Entire Life", along with all the bin Laden stuff,
is making me sick in itself!

[DJ MacWoW]

Why my goodness! Do you mean Kiefer Sutherland is wrong? Butbut, his grandfather wanted ALL Canadians to be healthy!

[2ThumbsUp]

This article is an eye-opener:

Eros Colored Glasses: TeresaCare: Department of Wellness

http://eroscoloredglasses.blogspot.com/2004/10/teresacare-department-of-wellness.html

[The Hound Passer]

I think you are preaching to the choir here. The Canadian system is an anathema to Republicans because, while it gives everyone equal access, it also makes everyone equally worse off.

Both Democrats and Republicans seek to equalize the classes. Here is the difference:

Republican utopia is to bring everyone's standard of living up to that of the wealthiest.

Democratic/Socialist utopia is to bring everyone's standard of living down to that of the poorest.

The unknown is, which philosophy does the "independent" voter find more appealing. I would hope the GOP, but the Dems know how to dress up a pig mighty perty.