You can make this big complicated system that cost billions to keep track of people's health, and payouts.
Or use the simple system of, everyone takes care of themselves, you are responsible to pay for your own healthcare.
The problem with that is that people then avoid getting the health care they need in a timely manner and end up waiting until it's a crisis to deal with their health care. That of course cost far more than the original problem.
As well when someone has a catastrophic medical situation, you end up turning people away because they don't have the funds to pay for the medical care.
Keep free health care for children under 18.
Health care isn't free. Someone pays for it. So why do I have to pay for both my health care and the health care of your kids?
If you make bad decisions, you should live with them.
As soon as our social system take away "good judgment"
and responcible thinking its counter productive and makes
things worst.
Canada is a welfair state.
People make mistakes, that's how we learn many important lessons in life.
A few lessons may go a little like this.
If you have a car accident, the rules of supply and demand kick in and peeling you out of what's life of your driver seat is negotiated while you sit there with the car smoking. Once done, we can move on to getting you stable and moving what's left of you and your passengers to the hospital. Since the other driver offered to pay more, (dude is loaded) him and his slightly injured passengers get dibs on the first arrivers. If you simply chose to make more money maybe this wouldn't happen to you.
So now that the B team has arrived, you can get your butt to the hospital. Which one can you afford? There is the good one's then the other ones for the budget minded. As it looks like your party is going to need care costing into the millions, you might want to go with the budget hospital, though your wife's face is going to take some skill to reattach it and avoid all the scar tissue and infection so maybe for that you want to go with the good stuff. Up to you though just inform the guys carrying you into the truck and they will be able to call ahead to the hospital of your choice to see if they will take you or not.
Of course if we're going to go with this take responsibility for your own actions, we can do away with the police. You can deal with your own problems like everyone else. If someone draws on you without good reason, go a head and shoot them if you can as you're in the right. Put out your own house when it catches fire and school your own kids.
You could of course buy your own security if that is what you want. Same with schools, power generation and water management. Don't forget to take care of your own garbage removal and disposal.
I can see where this is appealing right up until you have to actually start dealing with all of it. Falls apart there but still it nice to dream.
Canada isn't a welfare state. We do take care of keep most from falling too far through the cracks, which is how it should be in a wealthy country such as ours. People shouldn't suffer for the basic needs simply because of greed.
Oh MY !!! never thought Id see you defending me lol
Discussion, like politics, makes for odd bedfellows. Wot
Are you saying Civilization only exists to bail out all the dumb decisions everyone make?
Tell me why Civilization is there for.
No that is simply an added benefit, civilization allows for us to succeed in spite of individual weaknesses. It also allows for specializing in tasks while others supply for our needs. In this way we allow for a higher quality of goods and services as time can be spent to learn and hone the craft, which then can be traded with others for needed services and goods. In theory anyway. ;-)
