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Originally Posted by mgburg
THE NEW HEALTHCARE MANTRA FOR THE TAX-PAYING PUBLIC:
We the taxpayers, will support the few and tactless in their search and acquisition of healthcare and welfare for their own, while we, those same taxpayers, will scramble around, Canadian-style (think BACON), and hope our number comes up before OUR NUMBER comes up!
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A foolish statement. Your knowledge of our health care system is clearly flawed. These erroneous beliefs seem quite entrenched with a certain portion of your population. This has allowed large and profitable health care interests to equate Canadian-style health care with an attack on your freedom, which always resonates with a large portion of your population, and profit immensely in the process.
I always stay on the sideline with these discussions until invariably someone uses the "C" word and uses false information about Canadian health care to turn it into some sort of bogeyman to scare people into continuing to embrace a health care system that puts profit ahead of patient care. I'll be the first to say our system isn't perfect. It is far from perfect and it needs to be improved. But I wouldn't hesitate to choose my system over yours in a heartbeat.