Canadian Healthcare vs USA or Europe !

karrie

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Karrie that is something that has bugged the hell out of me for years. If you want to build a car to sell to the general public: It has to have steel beams in the doors to guard against side-impact, At least two air bags in case you hit something, Roof roll-over protection in case you roll the damn thing, crush zones front and back to lessen the impact.

What does a motor cyclist need? A crash helmet?????? G.F. Strong Hospital in Vancouver is full to the brim with paraplegic and quadroplegic Goddamn bikers that out medical system is paying for. While we are abolishing cigarettes, why don't we abolish motor bikes as well.

I'd just as soon speed limit them and toughen up traffic laws. In this day and age, abolishing small engines isn't going to help the environment much. The day we start trying to eliminate all risk and danger entirely is the day we become a pretty crappy place to live IMO.
 

#juan

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I'd just as soon speed limit them and toughen up traffic laws. In this day and age, abolishing small engines isn't going to help the environment much. The day we start trying to eliminate all risk and danger entirely is the day we become a pretty crappy place to live IMO.

You are probably right about limiting the speed of the damn bikes but from a polution point of view, the exhaust from motorcycles contain much more polutants than that of cars by percentage of volume.
 

karrie

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You are probably right about limiting the speed of the damn bikes but from a polution point of view, the exhaust from motorcycles contain much more polutants than that of cars by percentage of volume.

And don't carry as many passengers for the volume of fuel burned either most likely.

Ah well... can't police it all.
 

faithlessforeve

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I'm all for making smoking illegal. Stop making money on death. Stop selling the damn things.

But universal health care is universal health care. If docs don't turn away crack addicts or street bike riders, then we have no right to be refusing service to smokers.

...or anyone who knows the heatlh risks involved in living!!! I am curious to know why Juan had heart surgery....was it caused from a "life-style" choice?
 

talloola

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if smoking was made illegal, we would have prohibition again, then out would come the
mafia and other underground crooks, to control the cigarettes.

similar to abortion, if illegal, women go to underground sleezbag doctors, and have the
abortions anyway, or they travel elsewhere to have them.

How about the obese, who have very bad eating habits, they also contribute to their own
bad health, and on and on it goes.

and besides the government makes too much money, and that is #1 for them, they don't
care about people, just the profits from the smokes.

but I totally disagree with the free injection sites, as someone said the other day, a person in his family has diabetes, and has to buy all of his needles, no one gives them
to him for nothing.

If drug additcts won't go and get treatment, they should be thrown in jail, and throw
away the key. Imagine all the new drug addicts vancouver must have now, as it is so
easy to manage their habit. It makes me sick. They made a life choice, didn't work
out, don't want to fix it, bye bye, have a nice life behind bars.
That is expensive too, but it keeps them out of our houses, steeling us blind, to
support their filthy habit.