Canada’s health care system

[elvis]

Because Ronald Reagan and George Bush cut the marginal tax rate for the rich and wasted our money on ridiculous military expenditures.

Well, we are not rich then, because when you have to borrow money, you have none. So, we are not a rich country, plain and simple.

We are a very rich country, but we are squandering our resources on useless things and ignoring the things that are important like education, healthcare, and clean energy.

stimulus package, anyone?

 

[elvis]

We are a very rich country, but we are squandering our resources on useless things and ignoring the things that are important like education, healthcare, and clean energy.

And we'd be considerably richer if we weren't spending nearly 18% of our GDP to line the pockets of the health insurance and pharma industries.

yes, we all know Old Rocks gave you the Clap.

 

[Oddball]

And we'd be considerably richer if we weren't spending nearly 18% of our GDP to line the pockets of the health insurance and pharma industries.

We'd be considerably richer if medical insurance were a free field of interstate commerce, and the goddamn FDA didn't make each and every new medication or procedure cost 1/2 BILLION to get through their red tape.

Fucking rube.

 

[AllieBaba]

Yes. Rich enough that no one should go without routine preventative/maintenance healthcare or lose everything because they get sick.

I want to go to DC and kick every Dem's ass for pissing around and not getting this passed. To hell with reconciliation and reaching across the aisle. I told y'all what the hell they should have done from the beginning.

Then break open the wallet.

I'll pay more in taxes for universal coverage. No problem.

Just pay the medical bills of one person who doesn't have medical instead. You'll find that when properly motivated, ANYONE can and will get medical care, whether they can pay for it or not.

 

[KittenKoder]

Because Ronald Reagan and George Bush cut the marginal tax rate for the rich and wasted our money on ridiculous military expenditures.

Well, we are not rich then, because when you have to borrow money, you have none. So, we are not a rich country, plain and simple.

We are a very rich country, but we are squandering our resources on useless things and ignoring the things that are important like education, healthcare, and clean energy.

Wow ... you really are stupid. Again, you can't be rich without said resources, if we had resources we wouldn't be borrowing money, period. It's not rocket science.

 

[Oddball]

Well, we are not rich then, because when you have to borrow money, you have none. So, we are not a rich country, plain and simple.

We are a very rich country, but we are squandering our resources on useless things and ignoring the things that are important like education, healthcare, and clean energy.

Wow ... you really are stupid.

I disagree.

He's goddamned evil.

 

[veritas]

I am not feeling the dudeness.

 

[Oddball]

Shut the fuck up, Donny...You're out of your element.

 

[elvis]

Shut the fuck up, Donny...You're out of your element.

Osmond?

 

[veritas]

Shut the fuck up, Donny...You're out of your element.

Quite. And you are out of your league.

 

[Oddball]

Not by a dam sight, noob fuckface.

I eat freeper and DU hack-in-the-box dickweeds like you for midnight snax.

 

[Oddball]

Shut the fuck up, Donny...You're out of your element.

Osmond?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYJ7zZ9BRw]YouTube - big lebowski - shut the fuck up donny![/ame]

 

[Chris]

Not by a dam sight, noob fuckface.

I eat freeper and DU hack-in-the-box dickweeds like you for midnight snax.

No, mostly you just make a fool of yourself with childish insults.

 

[Oddball]

Eat shit, asshole.

I'm now repping more of my buds just so I can fuck your commie ass up some more....You waste of semen.

 

[elvis]

Not by a dam sight, noob fuckface.

I eat freeper and DU hack-in-the-box dickweeds like you for midnight snax.

No, mostly you just make a fool of yourself with childish insults.

What's the matter? did old rocks come in your eye again? Is that what happened you whiney little bitch? I bet he makes you squeal like a pig, doesn't he, Monica?

 

[elvis]

Eat shit, asshole.

I'm now repping more of my buds just so I can fuck your commie ass up some more....You waste of semen.

Yeah, that load should have been spit for sure.

 

[veritas]

Connor: Now you will receive us.
Murphy: We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
Connor: We do not want your tired and sick.
Murphy: It is your corrupt we claim.
Connor: It is your evil that will be sought by us.
Murphy: With every breath we shall hunt them down.
Connor: Each day, we will spill their blood till it rains down from the skies.
Murphy: Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
Murphy: There are varying degrees of evil, we urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
Connor: For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three. And on that day, you will reap it.
Murphy: And we will send you to whatever god you wish.

 

[Oddball]

**yawn**

 

[Yukon]

Let's see now. According to the GOP (Conservatives) a government administered Health Care System will result in:

* Death Panels
* Nazism
* Higher taxes
* Lower premiums
* Bureaucrats telling doctors how to treat the sick
* Extermination of the elderly
* the end of the "American Dream"
* etc.
* etc.
* etc.

Oh by the way. here are a few more GOP (Conservative) facts:

* The moon is made of cheese and that's why the Dems faked the moon landing in 1969
* America actually won the Vietnam war
* Elvis is working in an arcade in Nashville
* Michael Jackson is really in seclusion and is not dead
* The were WMD's in Iraq
* G Bush Junior was a great president
* Barack Obama is the anti-christ
* Barack Obama is not an American
* Barack Obama is Hitler re-incarnate
* Barack Obama won because the Negros all voted for him
* Barack Obama is really Rush Limbaugh in "black-face"

 

[MaggieMae]

1. Comparing the health care available to millionaires to the health care avaiable to the average person in two nations sytems is ridiculous.

2. Phantoms In The Snow: Canadians' Use Of Health Care Services In The United States -- Katz et al. 21 (3): 19 -- Health Affairs

They don't. The US insurance lobby invented the story of Canadians flocking across the border for care in the 90s to scare people out of health reform under Clinton. It was studied. See above. It was fiction. Nothing has changed to alter that since. A tiny handful of Canadians trickle across the border for care once in a while. In the meantime, 750,000 Americans went overseas for medical care in 2007.

And busloads of seniors go to Mexico because prescription drugs are cheaper there.

... and who controls prescriptions and doesn't allow us any competition?

Unfamiliar territory for you, I guess. The answer to your question is the Big Pharma lobbyists, who wrote the Part D Prescription Drug Bill for Tom DeLay. When Democrats refused to sign on because BP refused to allow comparison shopping, DeLay brought out the heavy artillery (i.e., IOUs) and it was a done deal. Price fixing.