PLEASE go to Washington, or at least send your Email to Washington.... Many people agree with you, and agree that health care should be available to everyone that needs it. There is an unfortunate contingent of people in the USA who are so CHEAP (sometimes not because they're wealthy, but because they have very little) that they fear spending a penny to assist another person in need. In a message dated 9/24/2009 5:33:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Thank God I'm Canadian. Americans are hilarious. In Canada there's zero talk of abandoning universal public coverage for basic medical. We argue about how much more public money should be dumped into health care, but nobody would dream of suggesting we make the system more like the US. We do have private clinics and people debate how far we should go to support that system. And yeah, rarely you have to wait a long time for a procedure depending on the situation. If you're rich, you can always pay for a private procedure, and if you're poor, the government will often send you to the private clinic and cover your costs, including travel in many cases. For the vast majority of problems, you'll get a doctor soon enough. I'm a landlord, and I work a salary job. I make $60,000 per year. I pay L ESS taxes than I would pay if I were to live in the US, once you consider that there I would have to pay taxes on my business profits, then separately pay my medical expenses. I paid 23% tax last year. If I made more money than I do from my rental business, I would simply incorporate and pay even LOWER taxes, somewhat less than 20%. I would still have at least as much health coverage as the student or senior on a pension that rents from me. I would also be free to buy additional medical insurance coverage if I wanted to. On top of that, I would STILL be free to pay for individual procedures/diagnostics directly if I were unwilling to wait. It would still be cheaper for me to go that route than to do it the American way. I've lived in both Canada and the US. I've seen both systems first hand. I've seen American cousins members bankrupted and lose their homes simply because they had a child born with Downs Syndrome. The only way they could get ANY medical coverage for their child was to go on welfare. Ironically, the mother is a nurse. What a great system. Count me out. In Canada the government would have paid to have the house renovated to be more accessible and the family would get a free wheel chair accessible van (via tax credits). Why do you think nobody in the rest of the industrial world is trying to model their health systems after the US?
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