Monday, November 24, 2008
Those wacky Canadian socialists
Canadian reader Cynthia writes about their wacky health care system up
north - you know, one of them there communist medical systems:
I just thought I would write you and tell you what it is like as a
Canadian with Health care. I am 53 yrs. old, female and I am a
Registered ER nurse. I am married, with 2 grown children. For all my
life, I have never known a time where I could not go to a Doctor, a
hospital, or a clinic, or a specialist. I have never had to worry
about paying up front.
We do pay taxes, but then so do Americans and get no Health care
for the taxes they pay. I have seen during my career, many Americans
and illegals (we get them too!) come to Canada to get Health care.
They think it is free, but far from it. They forget that we pay taxes
for it. I have one good friend who was born in Detroit, and lived in
Toronto, and then moved to Texas. While there, she got pregnant. She
moved back to Canada to have the baby, as she told me she could not
afford to have it in Texas. She still lives here now. Do I think I
live in a Socialist country? Not anymore Socialist than the U.S. We
are a democracy, just like the U.S., we have "Fat Cats" on Bay Street
in Toronto just like your Wall Street. We have capitalism, just like
the U.S., we have poor, middleclass, and rich, just like the U.S., I
have heard so many republicans put down Canada and England's health
care system, and say we are Socialist countries. Well, we are exactly
like the U.S., except that we get Health Care for our tax dollars,
whereas, the U.S. citizens get taxed, but no Health Care for that tax.
I think every American should "rise up" and DEMAND a universal
Health Care system. Why should Americans pay Insurance companies that
more than not, find ways not to pay for a "sick" person. I find that
disgusting! We all want to be healthy, and be able to go to a Doctor
and a Hospital and receive care without going "Bankrupt", and it would
even be better to pay a little more tax to the government than to pay
taxes and Health care premiums to Insurance companies who are only in
it for the money. So, no matter what they say about our Canadian
Health Care system, I have to say, I feel great that if I have to pay
taxes, at least I am getting something for the tax that I pay. No one
in the U.S. should be without Health care, and no one should have to
go bankrupt and worry if they can pay premiums. I do hope that
President Obama ends up putting in a "Universal Health care program",
I think it is every American's right!.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/those-wacky-canadian-socialists.html
Get sick and not worry about going bankrupt? Do they want us to give
up apple pie too?
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