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A free health care for everyone does sound good, though. I'm currently paying off a $2,500 medical bill because I didn't have health insurance at the time.
We should model our healthcare system after Canada's, trust me!! /Liberal moron-speak off
Ok, forgive me, I can't read through all this policy wonkery (not that there's anyting WRONG with it!). Something MUST be done, my small law firm just got renewal rates for our "column A/column B" insurance plan today. For the cheaper plan the rate increase was 33%, for the more expensive plan 37%! Last year our increase was nearly nil, prior years it had been increasing by about 10-12% annually. I called the agent and said this was unsupportable, and the Insurance Company must be punished, they are miserable to deal with anyway.
But my question, if Canda is #30, and the US #38, who is number 1? The top ten?
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TRUTH DOES NOT MATTER! WE MUST DEFEAT BUSH!!! Huh? Too late? BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION! Wait...no evidence of that either? D'OH!
Great post, maybe people will stop thinking Canada is heaven and open their eyes. Do you have a link to the WHO rankings?
The GOP must use Hillary's health care plan against her big time in 2008.
Hasn't Tenncare just folded, too? I haven't seen anything posted on it.
BTTT
Look let the blue states tax and do state government health care at there state level...hell let the blue states join together to do it
I live in Washington State and do consulting engineering in several cities on the Boarder with British Columbia. I have often heard about Canadians "jumping the que" to get real and quick medical service in the US rather than waiting and possibly dying up in Canada.
I can just imagine someone finding a lump they think could be cancerous and waiting for a biopsy, ultrasound, CATScan, or Xrays for several weeks. If that were me or my wife, I would come down to the US immediately get it looked at rather than waiting in psychological agony for many days to weeks prior to having laboratory reports to settle things one way or the other.
There is a North American shortage of cheap health care. That inexpensive health care is either rationed by the availability. You either have to wait for it which will depress the demand for some health care or you need to charge higher prices for it and that will depress the demand for it.
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check this out too:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,39028,00.html
Both Kerry and Bush talked about canadian prescr. drugs as a 'solution'....
Canada's population is 1/10 of the US. How can it provide meds for both coutries ??
What exactly do the above 3 criteria actually have to do with "Health Care"? Pretty much nothing I think.
I will never even listen to a discussion about it being government's responsibility to provide health care unless there's a similarly vociferous discussion about citizens' responsibility to TAKE FREAKIN CARE OF THEMSELVES.
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1. Hospitals are very dirty.
2. Doctors will try to kill their patients if they are old and considered more trouble than they are worth...saw this first hand. They need the beds.
3. Difficult to get care for difficult situations such as asthma if it is not a routine case.
I do not wish this system on us at any price. It is a disaster.
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Excellent post!