Are you insane? Your medical system is going bankrupt!
This coming from the one that is living in a nation with a trillion dollar deficit and multi-trillions in debt... You've got waaayyy bigger problems to worry about than Canada's medical system.
[FONT="]So more government control then, hm?[/FONT]
Still no response to the Patriot Act or the (recent) Arizona legislation, let alone Obamacare being rammed down the throats of people... You want to bitch about gvt control, there are 3 good examples of it with Obamacare being your element of socialized medicine.
Now ask yourself, how do you think it will be paid for?
You better hope we're not going bankrupt. Who's going to take care of you? "The United States has been taking care of Canada ever since the British stopped." - Hank Hill
A quote from King of the Hill.... How compelling. No wonder that your views are myopic. You get your info and world perspective from cartoons.
Has anyone read Mark Steyn's "America Alone"? It will scare the crap out of you. The population ratio for a country must be at 2.1 to keep a population steady. Otherwise that country's population begins to decline. U.S. is steady at 2.1, Spain is 1.1 that means in a generation the population of Spaniards will be cut in half. Canada is at 1.5 That means Canada's population is in serious decline. What does that mean for a country? Well, no babies equals no future workers. No future workers means no one to pay the taxes. No one to pay for the elderly on Medicare (I forgot what the program is called in Canada), and no one to pay for the Canada's health care system. Look it up.
Population demographics is only one part of the equation... You also need an economy and employment to fund the tax base and pay for the services. Canada can open the doors to more immigration a hell of a lot easier (and less expensive) than a nation can develop/save an economy.
Factor that into Steyn's analysis and without that economic vibrancy, having a high birth rate describes a third world nation that has a population problem.
Yes, we exploit you for your natural resources. This is true.
... And now you are competing with China and India for that option... Guess which ones have the cash available to buy into this poker game?
Jordan Johanson, 18, died at Rockyview Hospital in late March. He died following a 12-hour wait for surgery on his appendix. Darcy Johanson, the boy’s father, said “Young kids shouldn’t be dying like this. If something can be done to fix it, they should get on with it.”
“Teen dies after appendix ruptures,” The Edmonton Sun, By Bill Kaufman (April 19, 2007)
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Albe...9/4078502.html
Do your homework... This man arrived at a Calgary hospital and was informed of a (potentially) long wait. He elected to travel outside of Calgary to go to a rural emergency center for faster access. The trip turned out to be fatal.
The point being, the patient made a decision for which the medical system should not be held entirely accountable.
[FONT="]As I've explained earlier, my family still lives in Canada and has to deal with Canada's crappy system. So it affects me personally, I therefore have every damn right to complain about it.[/FONT]
Put up or shut up. Many people here have informed you of the private facilities available. If you are too cheap to crack open your wallet and provide ideological support for the free market system you so admire, then all you are is a free loader that has the gall to piss and moan about a system that has nothing to do with you.
I challenge any of you Canadians to show me how your government-run health care system is better than ours. If you use some b.s. study I will call you on it. The facts are undeniable and on my side.
How about this: Canada's system can evolve to incorporate more private components and lower the overall tax funded cost. The US system can only go from private to public at an overall cost to the tax payer.
Take a look at the relative economies of both nations and tell me who's in a better position to do this.
