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Originally Posted by mgburg
Zeus:
I have a serious question for you (and Jlomon, you can pitch in too!)...
How is YOUR HC paid for up there?
Are your bank accounts tethered to the National Treasury? Is money taken from your accounts without your sayso? How are you notified of impending deductions? Are you even notified?
Do you have a "prior agreement" that settles the yearly "premium" for deductions, or are the deductions at the whim of the National Medical Insurance Czar (or whatever you folks have up there in Canada...).
Or, do you just have a "bit" taken out of your paychecks each payday?
Down here, the booberment wants us to hand over our back accounts and leave it to them to decide what each individual taxpayer is going to HAVE TO "CHIP IN" for themselves, and everyone else...
That's for starters...at least that's what we're getting ready to do...  |
People seem to be worried about the visible threats. What you are talking about is 2 issues. First, people think of the govt as part of the fairy tale where the good woodcutter comes along and fixes Little Red Riding Hood's problems and goes away without asking for a thing in return. Like in the fairy tale, they will be willing to give the woodcutter what he wants. Secondly, you are only talking about the visible costs. What about the invisible costs that might be more? What happens when the new fund has issues because they have been raiding it and now it needs to be bailed out?