KErry Just Conceded. YEA!!!

[bluepeter]

You canadians are so brainwashed. They have community hospitals for people that can't afford it.

What are you talking about? Every Canadian has a health card that they present when they visit a hospital or a healthcare provider of any kind. We don't get a bill or have to decide if we want to eat that week to cover it. We have some of the best hospitals in the world that receive urgent patients from other countries without access to facilities as advanced as ours, the same as the US.

The only 'community' level healthcare in North America is south of the border.......the uninsured.

 

[curling]

This is off topic, but didn't you say something about your wife costing you a lot of money with her trips to the emergency room or to the doctor?

I can't remember but yea she is a sicky and cost me money. I should have looked at her teeth before I married her.

 

[AristotleBC]

Please. Our wealth per capita is pretty much exactly what yours is. Our standard of living has been higher than yours every single year for the past 20 years. Yeah, Canada is a real hellhole with millions of bums living off the man.

According to what standards?

Also, would be interesting to take Canada's socialist system, where they have plenty to spend on social programs because America provides military protection, and take away that military protection and the economic benefits of being our northern neighbor.

I suspect things would decline considerably as you'd have to build a stronger military and pay for it, and fend alone economically. And if they did decline, that would mean your socialist leaning-system was less effective than our capitalist one. And you know what that means.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

Dude, in America if you loose your job, you look for another one. And we don't even think about it. We have positive thinking and we do not accept ignorants in the streets trying to live from the government. Those are called Canadians.

problem is, what do you do when your job got cut and is going overseas because they can pay someone 1/10 of what they pay you and get the same work done. what do you do then? can you afford to go back to school and learn something else? can you find another job? what if there's 300 people competing for 2 positions...how are you supposed to work then? keep searching, sure, but then you end up in a situation like this -

So how is someone who works hard at a lower paying job with lots of overtime hours to make ends meet not worthy of healthcare for his children?

because you had to take a lower paying job. granted, some people life well beyond their means or right at the limit, so having to take a lower paying job just means they can't blow as much money on stuff they don't need. but what about the people with families that were living within their means yet now can barely (or can't) make ends meet?


when i got back into college, i had to start making a decision as to what i wanted to do. it's kind of hard to project just what jobs are going to be out there when i get my BA in 2 more years. i have decided to stick it out and go to law school after getting my BA. becoming a lawyer should be a pretty solid feild, i don't have many worries there.

but what about everyone else that's going to college? used to be a high school diploma would get you in the door in lots of places, now you have to have a degree just to get a $20k/yr job.

 

[Spartacus]

What are you talking about? Every Canadian has a health card that they present when they visit a hospital or a healthcare provider of any kind. We don't get a bill or have to decide if we want to eat that week to cover it. We have some of the best hospitals in the world that receive urgent patients from other countries without access to facilities as advanced as ours, the same as the US.

The only 'community' level healthcare in North America is south of the border.......the uninsured.

then there will be the "food card"
then the "the house card"
soon to be followed by the "suck my dick card"

 

[Spartacus]

with a name such as "bluepeter" you better get one of the latter

 

[bluepeter]

then there will be the "food card"
then the "the house card"
soon to be followed by the "suck my dick card"

You don't like our system? Fine. The fact remains that we pay less than half per capita what you pay for healthcare and everybody is covered. How that cannot be a good thing I have no idea.

Does the system have problems? Yes. Are there people that abuse it? Hell yeah.

 

[bluepeter]

According to what standards?

Also, would be interesting to take Canada's socialist system, where they have plenty to spend on social programs because America provides military protection, and take away that military protection and the economic benefits of being our northern neighbor.

I suspect things would decline considerably as you'd have to build a stronger military and pay for it, and fend alone economically. And if they did decline, that would mean your socialist leaning-system was less effective than our capitalist one. And you know what that means.

You are another person assuming that we would want a strong military. We don't. Most Canadians don't care about being some 'military power'. You can say that is because we fall under US protection and that is a small part I'm sure. Most of it is simply our attitude and our ideology. It's not something that is important to most of us.

We choose to spend our money on making sure that our children have healthcare, that makes me much more proud than it would having a nuclear arsenal.

I understand that many Americans don't see it this way but try to understand that we don't think the same way.

 

[SoKlueles]

All i can say is......stop whining and support the pres we got. Times are hard enough as it is, cant we all just get along?










































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