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The Price of Children
Vinny:
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You guys really need to move to Canada. Everyone give a great big "O'Canada" to publicly funded health care ;) I always find it shocking when I hears stories of people having a heart attack and the medical bills from it leaving a entire family in bankruptcy
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I truely believe that the US really needs to go into a government run healthcare system. Of course the horror stories of government run heathcare then surfaces. As you mentioned - we sometimes can go bankrupt. My health insurance used to have a copay of $20 - great. Well, the same company and healthcare provider (and yes more costly per month to me) now has me paying the first $500 (family)out of pocket and then 10% until I hit some huge out of pocket expense (not sure if it's as low as $1000 but think it is higher).
Of course the fact we have all these insurance companies and the CEOs all have high priced salaries AND some treatments may not be paid for really irks me. Healthcare should not be an option IMO.
I'm ready to move ... I'll come live with you until I find a job! ;) ;D
cooltoy2000:
Lot's of jobs in Alberta, not enough people to do them.
Vinny:
I don't have an US passport so I would have to be smuggled into the country.
Once there I would have to establish contact with people such as myself. I would have to live with them so we could get day work and hope to survive. I would have to work long, hard hours. Whenever I hear sirens I would have to look over my shoulders...
Oh wait you guys speak English, you got Molson ... I could fit in! I was thinking of our illegal alien problem! 8-) ;D
My wife always said she'd run to Canada if my boys were drafted!
Tman122:
160 G's to get the grass mowed for 6 or so years and the garbage taken out for 10 or so, seems a bit steep to me.
Vanguard:
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Yes, wait times can be long for elective or non-emergency surguries but they also don't cost a cent
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That is so naive. You don't pay any taxes in Canada?
The reason why healthcare in the US has gotten so expensive is because the employers pay for it. The users have forgotten that someone still pays for it. The other reason is all the absurd lawsuits we have in this country. Used to live in Mississippi, the tort system is so out of whack there that doctors are leaving because they can't afford the insurance. I just recently read that the med school in Jackson didn't even fill up this year.
Get regular, every day healthcare back to a market system and watch the cost come down. Then, use insurance for major medical when you can't shop around. That's the way it used to work here. We've always led the world in healthcare advances and technology - even when it was more of a user pay system.
AND... since this started about children....They are priceless. I'd pay anything for what mine have brought in my life.
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