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Canada: Health-care system unsustainable, says think tank
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| 03/10/04
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Posted on 03/10/2004 10:32:51 AM PST by Pikamax
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:32:52 AM PST
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
But their system is so superior to ours! ; )
CG
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:34:37 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: Pikamax
Predictions - a lot more Canadians coming to America to pay for the health care they could not get for free...
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:38:20 AM PST
by
2banana
To: 2banana
already happening...hospitals in Detroit and Buffalo are stuffed with Canadians who cannot bear an 18-month wait for some procedure.
To: Pikamax
It's amazing how myopic liberals are when it comes to this type of system. Socialized medicine in Britain and Canada is proving to be a costly, dismal, and sometimes life-threatening failure, but these demented pinkos in the US absolutely refuse to accept the facts as they are. Which is one more reason that we need to stamp out their ideology once and for all.
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:47:17 AM PST
by
Viking2002
(I think; therefore, I Freep............)
To: Pikamax
They didn't need a "think-tank" to come to that conclusion..!!!
Geesh, how do I get one of them there "Think-Tank" jobs?
FWIW-
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:49:10 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Political Correctness is Intellectual Fascism................)
To: Viking2002
The liberals are sure that socialism only fails because it's done wrong. They are sure THEY can do it right.
Makes me puke.
CG
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:49:24 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: Conspiracy Guy
But their system is so superior to ours! ; )Unless of course you get sick.
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:54:38 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Amen, brother. Some days, I have to keep a supply of airsick bags on hand, just to surf a few news sites.
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:55:42 AM PST
by
Viking2002
(I think; therefore, I Freep............)
To: Pikamax
"But it adds the system is an important economic engine, employing 1.5 million skilled and educated people, or 10 per cent of the employed work force.
Aha! Maybe if they made 100% of the employed work force health care employees, they could get rich taking care of each other!
To: Pikamax
Alan Greenspan make a trip up North?
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:56:31 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: Pikamax
gotta love socialism
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posted on
03/10/2004 10:57:02 AM PST
by
petercooper
(Florida 2000: Bush 2,912,790 - Gore 2,912,253)
To: Protagoras
True. Sick people really foul up the health care system.
CG
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posted on
03/10/2004 11:01:06 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: Viking2002
I keep clear plastic over my monitor and keyboard. Makes clean up a snap.
CG
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posted on
03/10/2004 11:02:22 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: 2banana
Another prediction.....Canada's own baby-boomers will completely crash their health care system, within ten years!
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posted on
03/10/2004 11:06:50 AM PST
by
spoiler2
To: Pikamax
I can tell you from growing up in Canada that the system is really abused...People get so used to going into the emergency room with the sniffles it becomes second nature and it has been going on for decades...it was a real shocker for my wife to find out that we have a copay for going to the ER down here in WA...It opened her eyes to the background costs...
My mother-inlaw and sister-inlaw really over use it too, They are up in Alberta, any time my neice or nephew get sick it's off to the ER..I tell them to stop doing it because the DR is just gonna get mad at them and tell them to take the kids to the regular DR...then they phone us up and complain that the DR is mean to them...
boohoo frickety hoo...
I hate it up there and don't want to go back, If I'm gonna be paying for someone elses medical then they may as well move in with my family...at least that way I feel like I'm not totally being ripped off with taxes..
To: MD_Willington_1976
Yeah and the cost there is $121 billion. Let's see they're about 10% in population size to us and I would say they have 35% fewer services so if we followed their model that would make it roughly hmmmm $1,7 trillion per year. now let's add that to our current $2.1 trillion budget and we're at $3.8 trillion per year. And that we'll be frugal and take out let's say $500 billion that's not going to have to be paid twice and that get's us to a paltry $3.3 trillion budget.
Hey the dems are right they sure know how to reduce deficits!
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posted on
03/10/2004 11:25:15 AM PST
by
marlon
To: marlon
Yeah it sucks...I mean if you dont mind shelling out more than 50% of your income in taxes then hey go for it, I personally find paying taxes in the USA to be less painfull then back in Canada...
But just think of all the woderfull social programs that you can participate in...[/BARF
To: Buckeye McFrog
There but for the grace of God go us. Of course a little thing called a filibuster of Hillarycare by the Republicans didn't hurt matters either.
Who said there's not a dimes worth of difference?
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posted on
03/10/2004 11:58:19 AM PST
by
gooleyman
(You'll NEVER agree with ANYONE about EVERYTHING. You'll NEVER agree with a DemocRAT about ANYTHING)
To: Pikamax
"You can have your socialist utopia, but only briefly."
- Mark Steyn, Canadian warrior poet.
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posted on
03/10/2004 12:22:22 PM PST
by
rudypoot
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