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They've got one in Canada, and England. Still, those who can come here for decent care. But I feel for you, buddy. Haven't had good coverage most of my life myself. And remember this: As soon as you get really sick, the insurance companies will drop you like a hot potato no matter how good of a customer you've been. IMHO, the solution is to open our health care system to all levels of care providers who are required to compete with one another for customers; i.e., you shouldn't be required to go to an MD to get a nail pulled out of your foot and get a tetanus shot, for crying out loud. A nurse could do that kind of stuff.

And a person shouldn't be prohibited from buying so many beneficial meds over the counter unless he pays a doc an exorbitant fee for an office visit just for the priviledge of a cursory exam and a written prescription. For instance, imo, most pain meds should be feely available over the counter even if there are some people in society who are way too stupid to use them wisely. Screw Big Brother.

And the FDA should get off the drug companies' backs. It's inexcusable that drugs which have been safely and effectively prescribed in Europe and elsewhere around the world for decades can't pass muster here because, perhaps, no one has "gotten to" the right FDA official.

Competition in the marketplace, and not vigorish in a bureaucrat's office, as usual, is the solution for this predicament we're in vis-a-vis health care.

They've got one in Canada, and England

Truly, we in Canada have probably the best system in the world.

Living in Alberta I can't speak for the eastern seaboard provinces.

Why Americans are against socialized medicine beats hell out of me.

Don't you realize it is your own tax dollars paying for it. I am 70 years old. I have just finished a 36 treatment radiation course for cancer.

The cost for EVERYTHING from start to finish, was zero. It took seven weeks

My wife died last year from bone cancer. She was in the hopital four days a month for close to seven years for chemotherapy. Her cost for EVERYTHING was zero.

Our health care premiums together were 71.00 dollars a month. You read it right,71.00 a month. Since She has gone my cost is 32.00 a month. She was in the hospital 3 days after being diagnost. We pay 25% of all drug costs, with a maximum of 25.00 per prescpition. There is no time limit on howlong you can stay in the hospital, or how much drugs you need. I believe the difference between our two great countries could be in your defence budget.

If anyone would care to contact me thru freep mail and discuss this further, I will prove everything I say here. Keep Healthy