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“I'm confused by this article. In Canada there is no private health care insurance. It's against the law.”

That’s not exactly 100% accurate. Both my wife and I have health coverage at work. While our national system does pick up all the essentials there are some things that aren’t covered, dental, private rooms, drugs, etc.

But the bottom line is, if you are seriously ill, you will not be allowed to fall through the cracks, nor will your treatment bankrupt you.

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It is simple. The Canadian universal health care system is based on the principle that health care should be equal to everybody, whether you are rich or poor. This is a contrast to the capitalist society which dictates that the rich can get all the health care he/she can afford while the poor can simply die.

The Canadian system is socialism at its best. Not to say that there are no problems with the system. There are problems with abusive usage, difficult to retain doctors and nurses, etc. However, these problems pale in comparison with who has a better right to be healthy and who has a right over others to stay alive.

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"If you want private insurance you should be able to buy it. If you want national health, you should buy it. Let the consumer make the choice. Oh, that's the problem you don't want to pay for your own health care, you want someone else to. As a taxpayer, you're going to pay for it. Either to a company or the government. Nothing is ever free."

That is a good estimate of the problem. I cannot but health insurance. My dad cannot either because he is diabetic. It isn't a matter of money. If you have a prexisting condition you are SOL unless you get in with an employer like my dad and his government job. I used to have Kaiser coverage in California. It is one of the top HMOs in the country. They are heavy on preventitive medicine. I would like to see a national program where we see people before a problem becomes ER material. I think it saves money to put someone on some cholesterol drugs than to wait until they have a heart attack and need surgery. If I pay for it either way I would rather solve small problems than big.

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BB64:

I live in CA.
The minimum wage here is $8.00 an hour. That won't pay the rent let alone, food, insurance,clothes,utiliities. But that is what industry thinks a liviable minimum wage is in CA.

Get a clue rich man or wanna be rich man. Sooner or later the people get sick and cost a lot more to take care of than if they had access to medical care.
Why do ya think we are in such a crappy way here ??? Because the poor get health care, or because the wealthy get away with paying slave wages to illegal immigrants and drive down the wages of the legal residents. And don't even begint o quote me how much more cheaply one can get labor done over seas. You want to support Chinese labor, move there and get the hell out of America.

Let me ask you something, would you work for 8 dollars an hour when it won't even put a roof over your head ???

Many do.

SDo stop with your bull crap. Most businesses don't care about their employees at all anymore. They look at the bottom line and gey the cheapest insurance they can.

I know because I have went from good insurance, to why even have it, it cost so much and has a $1500.00 per person minimum before even starting to cover anything.
So blow your propaganda out your kazoo.

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