Socialised health care in Canada poll

Your ideology is in direct conflict with common sense. Why do people have house insurance ? Because if their house burns down, it is a financial disaster that for many will take a lifetime to recover from (if at all).

Of course in a public health system, there is no such issue.

 

The government doesn't provide home owners insurance, you purchase it.

 

The OP to whom I was replying was advocating a so called free market and no insurance.

 

I hope you are not implying that American law is perfect and can not be improved, because that is what it sounds like

let me simplify it so you can understand what is very clear to me

two men are sick of curable disease, one is poor, another is rich

we cure the rich one because we made profit

we let the poor one die because he would cost the society money

YET HAD HE LIVED HE COULD HAVE INVENTED NEW COMPUTER CHIP

employed million people, payed millions in taxes

etc etc

 

I guess someone will need to ask Jack Kilby and the kin of Robert Noyce if they were rich or poor.

 

only one poor shmuck you save

can make up for whole lot of shmucks

 

UK, France, and Sweden.

 

Not just philosphical. In the case of communicable diseases if a significant portion of the population doesn't have ready access to health care, detection of the disease is likely to be later rather than sooner increasing the risk of further spread of the disease. In this sense, the well being of the individual is directly connected to the health of the whole population.

 

this isn't working out

I VOTE that United States of America joins the mother country United Kingdom

and enjoys the protection of Queen Elizabeth the sovereign


Under our Queen and with the help of God (who obviously favors royalty) we shall prevail


This Thread is OVER

Just wait till we get a king, I'll be the giddiest lad in all of British Columbia (real place by the way, BC usually called)




PS: prince Charles is incredibly good guy, good soul. But he is surrounded by devil and her minions

 

I'm Canadian. I've had nothing but good experiences with healthcare, as in when I need something, like specialists, x-rays, and operation etc. it's easy and quick (just present my healthcard) and I've never has a problem. In general I don't have to think about healthcare because the taxes I pay cover everything i need for much cheaper than if I paid for healthcare through an insurance company. If you want the lowest price, and most efficient system, there is only one: single payer.

The national healthcare system is about as popular in Canada, as say the Constitution or Bill of Rights is in America. Tommy Douglas (father of medicare) is the most popular Canadian of all time. If you were to run a poll on "Canadian Healthcare, yay or nay?" The pro side would win by a landslide, probably 98 or 99 percent to 1. Literally. It's that popular.