Comments on: Canada’s sacred cow begs to be put out of its misery

By: skinny dude

skinny dude — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:59:20 +0000

shit all over myself? Why because I refuse to stand left or right? Does that confuse you so that you consider it shitting on oneself?

I see different systems around the world, and I’m not going to fall for some magical ‘oooh the Europeeeeeeans have a great model’ nonsense based on a poll of whether they’re content or not.

Come on I’ve heard enough of this if we only… crap that promises to fix all.

There’s no reason to me why a public health system can’t have stronger controls on how much is free without having people abuse the system, and properly funding it without everyone going batshit over gst cuts that hasn’t done dick all to help our economy anyway.

If having an opinion that I think is reasonable makes me a troll, then so be it.

By: Steynian 285 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 285 « Free Canuckistan! — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:44:26 +0000

[...] CANADA’S sacred cow begs to be put out of its misery …. [...]

By: Gippergal

Gippergal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:50:44 +0000

I wish the Canadians would fight for better health care! Then maybe it would remind some Americans that socialized medicine isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – not that they’d all listen – Hawaii just had a disaster in health care – but at least it’d be a little resistance to the leftist illuminati who want to put every facet of life under government control!

By: TxSkirt

TxSkirt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:41:08 +0000

Yes, darlin’ RG, your commentors may indeed be idiots. First, I happen to have a family of 4 that I insure for about 1 quarter of what Mr. BL@KBIRD suggests above. I still have a house and no body has cancer. Maybe it’s just my sunny optimism caused by the fact that I didn’t buy more house than I could afford that keeps me cancer free. Second, we, too, spent an extended amount of time (6 years) without insurance due to several factors and still managed to go to the doctor when necessary for common maladies because guess what? Doctors offices take cash, too. We just didn’t go out to eat that month or to the movies or buy that big, flat screen t.v. In fact, during our uninsured period, I even had a non-medicare baby. I set up a payment plan with the hospital and doctor and paid her off by her third birthday. The point is, the government is never the answer. They will muck it up for sure.

By: marvell

marvell — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:18:44 +0000

Canada’s medical system is essentially communist. It is now too large a share of GDP to be sustainable and will fail, as all large-scale communistic enterprises do.

Canad’s medical care is second rate now, but we content ourselves with it in exactly the same way as Russians of the 50′s and 60′s did, with false comparisons to the US such as “we may have to line up but at least we’re not dying in the streets like in America”. We love our equal distribution of poverty in health care.

Like all such government enterprises, medicare creates dependency and along with a sense of entitlement all can share in, with everyone eventually wanting their “fair share”, now or later. It thus becomes impossible to change, which is always a reason to oppose government programs.

Canadians seem to have received more than their share of stupidity in life’s lottery – and medicare joins a long list which includes immigration, multiculturalism, pacifism, “soft power”, equalization payments and so on.