And what does that mean?
Keep believing that – and putting it into practice – and we’ll harvest even more Candian doctors.
Just recently, I turned 65 and was forced to apply for Medicare – it’s less satisfactory and more expensive than my privately-paid insurance.
Yes & No. I believe in both courses of actions. People should be allowed to insure themselves and at the same time the Government should insure people. I myself have both. Government health insurance & personal health insurance.
and its ruining both of us. its luring the greediest of our doctors and its making your doctors richer at the expense of your people.Keep believing that – and putting it into practice – and we’ll harvest even more Candian doctors.
So what does that mean? Do you feel people should be forced to pay for insurance – government or private – if they don’t want it?
Not hardly – we get good care, with up-to-date technology, and no waiting.
That’s because it’s cold up there, and you’re in the deep freeze half the year.
My health care insurance is mostly provided by the agency I worked for. Now that I’m retired I’m required to pay a portion.
Unfortunately, pizza delivery drivers rarely have a pay package that includes any kind of health care. This is the sad truth of most service oriented jobs and one reason why so many Americans have no insurance. I have none myself. I was paying my COBRA and just couldn’t make it with the limited income I have at the time (I’ll save you the details except to say I didn’t expect this situation and hope it will be resolved later this year). I’m in Los Angeles, so I’ll probably die before I get treatment should something serious occur as the hospitals we have that serve the non-insured tend to provide poor if any service - folks dying in the waiting room, waiting for 48 hours to be seen, etc. It is a sad situation.
Well if Michael Moore said it… who can argue?Our Canadian health care system is less than perfect.
The question is, is your U.S. system better than ours?
Not according to your fellow American Michael Moore.
Our system is the best in the world as long as you are rich or reasonably well to do. For every story that one can extract from Canada about a bad outcome through alledged socialized medicine, of course, thousands of dead Americans cannot speak because they had no health care at all.Our Canadian health care system is less than perfect.
The question is, is your U.S. system better than ours?
Not according to your fellow American Michael Moore.
They are sure flocking there to get drugs at fair prices rather than be gouged by US pharmaeceutical firms protected by the present government.
More polemics and neither evidence nor alternatives.
You can believe that GOP nonsense if you wish. Did you happen to hear of the group featured on 60 Min a few weeks ago? Something like doctors without borders. They used to travel to foreign countries and try to treat people in remote areas who got no health care at all. They now go almost exclusively to small towns in the US. Their customers are according to them, almost universally working class people who cannot afford insurance or are severely under insured because of the costs. Your attempt to claim that most uninsured are either too lazy to pay premiums or too stupid is inaccurate and offensive.Define “Lie.”
Did he point out that most of those people who have health insurance (not health care) choose not to have it – making a rational choice not to pay premiums?
Did he point out that most of the people who don’t have health insurance are young and healthy?
Did he point out that many of the people who don’t have health insurance are illegal immigrants?
Did he point out the Massachusetts “solution” was to force people to buy health insurance – whether they want it or not – or pay higher taxes? And did he explain how that** helps** the poor?
And we have had one reported case where a dis-satisfied Canadian was punished by being sent to the foot of the list – a death sentence without a trial.
And you are so proud I take it? your casual happy little hernia operation is beyond the means of millions in this country. You act like this is a joke. Millions are suffering and youre proud you have a private room and a snack bar? Give me a break.
LOL no argument I take it. The statistics are well known. The alternative is simply, universal health care.More polemics and neither evidence nor alternatives.
Canadians who need treatment now and cannot wait come to the US (if they cannot afford it – the vaunted Canadian “universal health care system” will not pay for treatment outside Canada.)
So… no people die in the states as a result of a bureaucratic incompetence? Wow, you guys must have a much better system than it appears.
My, my – couldn’t you come up with a better reply than that?
Actually, it seems that the uninsured die here every day:
Care to place money on that?My, my – couldn’t you come up with a better reply than that?
The point is no one in the US is sentenced to die by the health care bureaucracy.