XPost: talk.politics.misc, or.politics, seattle.politics
XPost: ca.politics
From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net
hlillywh@juno.com (Hal Lillywhite) wrote:
> Lobby Dosser wrote in message
> news:...
>
>> >> P.S. No shortage of flu shots in Canada, and they're free!
>
>> > No, they are not free. Canadians pay for them through their taxes.
>> > What "free" in this context means is you already paid for it,
>> > whether you want it or not.
>
>> Sorta like Blue Cross without the middle man. You paid for my hip
>> replacement whether you wanted to or not. And befor the next two
>> weeks are up, we'll bot be paying for somebody's coronary, whether we
>> want to or not.
>
> Sorta but sorta not. Here I can chose which insurance company I want
> to deal with (or my employer can), or I can even be dumb and not get
> any insurance at all. I can get catastrophic only coverage, or a
> policy that covers most every little cold I have. My cost will
> reflect which I select. In Canada they don't have that option, one
> size fits all and if it doesn't happen to fit you, well too bad, you
> can go to the US and pay for a doc you trust more.
>
> Of course the complete, tax funded system encourages overuse and long
> lines at the doc's office too.
>
The insurance funded option doesn't do this? Read what I said: We Are
Paying Right Now! We are paying higher insurance premiums and we are
paying higher medical costs.
You also might go look at what Kerry is proposing. It is NOT a submit a
bill to the government program. It is NOT government employed health care
workers.
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