Posted on 11/10/2004 4:47:33 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan
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A free health care for everyone does sound good, though. I'm currently paying off a $2,500 medical bill because I didn't have health insurance at the time.
We should model our healthcare system after Canada's, trust me!! /Liberal moron-speak off
Ok, forgive me, I can't read through all this policy wonkery (not that there's anyting WRONG with it!). Something MUST be done, my small law firm just got renewal rates for our "column A/column B" insurance plan today. For the cheaper plan the rate increase was 33%, for the more expensive plan 37%! Last year our increase was nearly nil, prior years it had been increasing by about 10-12% annually. I called the agent and said this was unsupportable, and the Insurance Company must be punished, they are miserable to deal with anyway.
But my question, if Canda is #30, and the US #38, who is number 1? The top ten?
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Curious
Free? Try paid for with taxes. How much would you have paid to the IRS to get the $2,500 of medical services paid for by the government.
TRUTH DOES NOT MATTER! WE MUST DEFEAT BUSH!!! Huh? Too late? BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION! Wait...no evidence of that either? D'OH!
Great post, maybe people will stop thinking Canada is heaven and open their eyes. Do you have a link to the WHO rankings?
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Great Post. Saved for later re-posting.
The GOP must use Hillary's health care plan against her big time in 2008.
Hasn't Tenncare just folded, too? I haven't seen anything posted on it.
BTTT
Look let the blue states tax and do state government health care at there state level...hell let the blue states join together to do it
Good point.
I hope you tried to negotiate a lower payment.
I live in Washington State and do consulting engineering in several cities on the Boarder with British Columbia. I have often heard about Canadians "jumping the que" to get real and quick medical service in the US rather than waiting and possibly dying up in Canada.
I can just imagine someone finding a lump they think could be cancerous and waiting for a biopsy, ultrasound, CATScan, or Xrays for several weeks. If that were me or my wife, I would come down to the US immediately get it looked at rather than waiting in psychological agony for many days to weeks prior to having laboratory reports to settle things one way or the other.
There is a North American shortage of cheap health care. That inexpensive health care is either rationed by the availability. You either have to wait for it which will depress the demand for some health care or you need to charge higher prices for it and that will depress the demand for it.
Tenncare has folded
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http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,39028,00.html
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