Given the state of public education – with a national high school dropout rate of about 30% and an average dropout rate of 50% for our largest cities, we have to have an alternate system of education.
To address Vern real quick and to point out how I spend my time while unemployed, I’d like you to know I am very busy with charities in this area. I work, very hard, 3 days a week volunteering at different organizations. As long as I’m unemployed, I try to never say no when asked to help in other ways. I put applications in at various places and have been trying to gain a full time job. In the meantime, I do odd jobs when one is presented, usually lawn care, these jobs are far and few in between.
I appreciate that – but how does that apply to this thread?
Speaking as a person who cannot afford health insurance for my family, I’m pretty sure that the quality of my family’s health care would improve with universal coverage.
It applies because it had been inferred that maybe since I promoted a universal healthcare I was being greedy to which I responded and the comeback was the response I needed to work harder. Please read through the thread and maybe you can see the correlation.
Thank you for posting this.I elect my member of parliament to worry about this stuff…it works for me.
Seriously, the Canadian system, although not perfect…it does work.
Take me for example.
I saw a funny mole on my neck
I go to my family doctor with my health card, swipe the card, in I go to see my doctor.
He refers me to a dermatologist.
I go see the dermatologist, they swipe my health card, he takes a biopsy.
2 weeks later, I get a call, its a melanoma skin cancer.
I go see my family doctor, swipe the card.
I go back to the dermatologist, swipe the card.
I have an appointment to have the tumour removed
I re-attend the dermatologist’s, guess what…yep, they swipe the card and the tumour is removed.
My prognosis is basically 100% because it was caught early.
All of my medical costs were funded by the Canadian Tax payer…I did not pay one cent out of pocket.
Like I said, the system isn’t perfect…the only negative part of the whole process…is I had to wait about 5 months initially to see the dermatologist.
Now, in my city the waiting list is 5 months, in Toronto, the waiting list is 2 weeks. So, very clearly there simply are not enough dermatologists in my city…
Like, I said, the system isn’t perfect…but it does work and I’m proof of it.
What would my services have cost in the USA if I didn’t have health insurance?
Our Lord's public ministry was pronounced for its focus on healings ....spiritual , physical ....I agree about sweeping statements. We all tend to do it from time to time and it more often than not negates the rest of the conversation. Now, as to the Canadian system, I darn near died while living there under that system and the circumstances would never have happened in the States. I enjoyed my time in Canada and still correspond with friends there, but as far as I am concerned, I would not want that system here.
So, the Canadian system is a failure eh? Care to back that claim up, other than saying ’ Canadians go to American Hospitals all the time’.
Yes, the Canadian Universal Health care system has it’s problems, it is far from perfect, but it does work and every single person in the country has equal access to tax funded health care.
To dismiss the Canadian Health Care system as a complete failure is quite simply wrong.
Lets try and refrain from making such wide sweeping claims about things that we know nothing about.
At a time when I had coverage for my wife and myself, a doctor diagnosed her abdomen swelling as a stomach infection. After a few weeks of antibiotics her swelling continued. The doctor wanted to intensify the antibotic treatment.
I think you are taking matters in debate personally.
Then can I assume you are not in favor of a government-run single-payer healthcare system?
I’ll admit I might have. It’s hard to discern sarcasm through this type format. If I did mistake your comments, I apologize.
And Medical Savings Accounts are one way to do that, with assistance to those who cannot pay based on their income tax return.
Of course it works. Your country and Europe enjoys a longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than we do here. We pay 82% more as citizens for our healthcare than the average of other industrialized nations. Even with that our government spends more on health care than other industrialized nations and our benefit for all of that is that we end up being ranked between the lower 20’s and 30’s in healthcare quality. But hey we beat Mexico, and in immunizations we’re just behind Botswana!I elect my member of parliament to worry about this stuff…it works for me.
Seriously, the Canadian system, although not perfect…it does work.
Glad everything worked out.
I’m sure that was a relief. Most of my family has died of one form of cancer or another. We’ve all been blessed to have insurance but I’ve had a couple of family members have their insurance give out while in treatment because the costs exceeded the maximum coverage.
Sure it really isn’t any different here. More rural areas have less medical availability. Even in medium sized cities one can wait a few months for certain procedures. One of my uncle’s was in a motorcycle wreck last year. He had to be flown to a facility that could handle his injuries that ended up being out of state. He had to spend two months in the hospital. His wife had to pretty much leave her job and move out of state to be with him at the hospital.
Like, I said, the system isn’t perfect…but it does work and I’m proof of it.
A lot, and in some cases you may have had to just die from it. Best case scenario though you either would have been paying off a staggering bill or the hospital would have absorbed the bill which would have then been passed on in costs to someone with insurance who’s company would have used it as an excuse to raise their rates thus increasing the number of people who can’t afford insurance.
Does anyone know what the laws are in reference to a religious group getting together for health insurance? Big business is offered discounts for their numbers. Why can’t Catholics be considered a group and seek group coverage? What would be the pros and cons?
It shows the power of big business and how it affects our government to work against the average citizen. It’s more of an attempt to remain a monopoly for the sake of profits, or so it seems to me.Do you know that Wal-Mart will sell you a month’s supply of any generic drug for $4.00? And that Wal-Mart was attacked on this issue in the United States Senate for being “unfair” to other drug stores?!?
I get my mail ok. The mail may be slow, but it works better than delivering it myself.
The Church could do it – they offer life insurance through the Knights of Columbus.
Are you saying Wal-Mart has a duty to cheat and gouge the public? That they have to have high prices for drugs to make things “fair” for other businesses which cheat and gouge?