Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>
Looks like the US focus is on the costs of providing medical services. This is a significant difference from the Canadian focus which is?on providing a quality life style for its residents. Mario responds: I wonder if Mervyn has spoken with any Canadians before writing this. If he had he would have discovered that the Canadian quality life style includes being put on a medical waiting list for anything more serious than a hang nail: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/international/americas/26canada.html In the meantime, the abominable, cost conscious US health care system is a serious burden on US life styles because there are NO medical waiting lists. The US system also has some other major shortcomings as well as listed in the following analysis: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 Mervyn wrote: The weakest section of society i.e. those over 65 is the section that benefits the most from Canada's system of health care. Obama (blessed be, his name) is studying the Canadian model at this very moment and may introduce the US to a clone of the Canadian model. Mario corrects the facts again: In Canada those over 65 are even more at risk from medical waiting lists because their illnesses are likely to be even more life threatening due to their age. In the meantime Americans over 65 are covered by a low cost Medicare system that includes NO medical waiting lists. At this very moment Obama is busy fraternizing with the Arabs, genuflecting before King Abdullah and finally proclaiming his Muslim background after denying it throughout the presidential campaign last year, even writing in his memoires that his now supposedly-Muslim father, whom he never knew, was an atheist. There is absolutely NO evidence that Obama has ever considered the Canadian system, as wonderful as it is in providing a quality life style by Canadian standards as shown above. Obama knows that if the US system becomes as efficient as the Canadian system, Canadians will have to go elsewhere for any serious and life threatening treatments if they want to prolong their lives to enjoy all that quality life style they have up there.
