Ray said: Whining eventually gets someone's attention and I've heard whining
about the lousy government jobs in Canada for years and thought that they
didn't know how lucky they were. Same for Canadian citizens who complained
about lousy health care and came here for their care. It never hurts to have
competition and if you need something immediate the American private sector is
good at rescues when the Canadian or Veterans Hospitals here would take longer.
America is just bad at long term solutions to almost anything.
Ed says: I spent 30 years in the Canadian public service. I didn't hear very
much whining, though of course there was some. Personally, I wasn't very good
at it. As for our lousy health care, I've just had a knee replaced and all I
had to pay was the additional cost of a semi-private room, about $120. I
wonder what that would've cost someone in the US who had no private insurance.
And I didn't have to wait very long for the surgery - a couple of months or so.
However, we're now beginning to run into some problems. The baby-boomer
population, aprx. 55 to 70, is growing and becoming a much larger part of the
population. And it seems that we don't have enough doctors and may not have
enough medical facilities. Baby-boomers may have to wobble around on crotchety
knees much longer than I did or, if they can afford it, go to the US and buy a
new knee there.
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