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I work in an emergency department - I see everything. So I find it funny you think you are an expert on what medical care and the standard of that care that people in this country receive. You have NO IDEA on what standard is.... Let me give you an example. Cost of transport via Life Flight - minimal Cost of cardiac cath during acute heart attack - zero Cost of hip replacement, CT's, MRI's, Xrays, blood tests - zero Cost of Trauma team to save your ass post motorcycle accident - zero Cost for stay in ICU - zero Cost to have specialists work on you for months - zero Cost to have a child with special needs taken care of in hospital - zero Cost of antibiotics, special infusion devices, external hearts, pace makers, skin grafts, plastic surgery post accident....etc. Cost to have a public health nurse follow your child's growth for 6 years - zero Yes we pay higher taxes to support our health care. Yes our system needs work. But, the cost to the average person that finds themselves in the need of medical care will not bankrupt them. Accidents happen and really shitty things happen to good people. Medical insurance will not prevent you from getting sick. I'd rather pay higher taxes so that my family, my friends can get whatever they need if the situation should arise. Sadly, since our standard of care is so good, we do a lot for people that don't deserve it. I have to give everyone the same treatment, even though some bring on their own demise and do nothing to better their situations. They def. drain the system and resources. That part bugs all of us a lot. But when you've been diagnosed with Cancer, your 36 years old with 2 children and a wife that loves you...and your going to die...It's kinda nice in a f*cked up way that your family wont have to pay for your death years after it happens. |
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do you mind paying for pedro and his 10 kids and/or laquanda and her 5?
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#104 |
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thats kinda where my question way back was asking, does canada have 10-11 mil illegals, no telling how many pay taxes. let alone the generational freeloaders we have.
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US population 308,109,000
CA " 33,869,000 we prolly have more freeloaders then they have population. lol
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Nomadic Tribesman
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
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The simple truth is that Americans are too resistant to a system of true 'universal' health care for it to work down there, using the Canadian model. It will no more work there, than American style democracy will work in Afghanistan or Iraq. A compromise system is what is required. Those who choose to pay for comprehensive health care coverage would have a portion of their payments funnelled off, in order to help provide low cost health care for those who can't afford it. But the problems in your system are more fundamental than that. Even if you have health care coverage, you had better not get seriously ill. The co-pays, alone, will pauper you. The upshot is that each system excels in its own way. Ours can be improved. So can yours. Perhaps you do, but characterizing all people who can't afford health care as 'freeloaders' is disingenuous.
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Aspiring Rapper
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Location: Halifax, NS
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Its not like everybody is unemployed willfully.
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The current package they are drafting will be paid for in a combination of ways... the "savings" from medicare, one % to those using it, another % to those not using it, and a whopping % to those making a large reported income... it's more like Robin Hood. There's even a proposed excise tax on insurers of employer-sponsored health plans. Interesting to have those taking people out of the system pay for those in the system....
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got ins. after i get laid off, wink back.........
and i'm talkin of generational freeloaders vs in-between workers......hell we have more people unemployed at this time then CA has total population.
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