Health Care Reform - Real Canadian Stories

To my cousin from a friend:
We keep hearing about how Canadians hate their public health system. Megan's family has land in Canada and have been going up there for years. The have many friends in Canada who they still keep in touch with and they all love it. They especially love that when their kids are sick, they're covered. It may not be the greatest, has it's problems and the answer for us may be to rework our current system to make it more productive, affordable and sensible. But, how do you know when most news sources are bascially preaching to the choir or sensationalizing a story? I think we are flooded with so much convoluted information from so many sources, it's impossible to know the answers. I'm especially sick of all the politcal e-mails I get and those sending them with the blind faith that their source is always truthful. Fact is, the lie machine is much more prevalent than the truth machine. And, it comes from all viewpoints, left, right and moderate


To my cousin from another friend:
i've lived for a year with socialist meds, it's great. also sam is right. i have friends who grew up in the staes and now live in canada, and they are very happy with the system there. miss ya man


From my cousin in Canada:
"It's not perfect, especially in Quebec, and I think that the Italian and french systems are better, but it is one hell of a lot better than the system in the USA where people sometimes have to sell their houses to pay for their medical bills."

Single payer? If you want it you can have it. Italy, France and Canada are nowhere near as rich as the USA is (perhaps I should say used to be) and yet they have single payer systems and no one goes without health care in those countries or goes bankrupt trying to pay for their hospital bills. Believe me I know, I've lived in all three of those countries and their populations are by and large healthier than the US population. Why do world leaders come to America for their health care needs? 'Cause they can afford to. If you have money you can get very good health care in America. Around 47 million Americans however have no health care, which is a little less then the entire population of Italy. Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it, single-payer in the USA will never happen.



From another cousin in Canada:
"it's great." oops..forgot! MY Canada does not include Quebec ; )

All in all, I would say it is pretty decent and not very scary at all..like most Americans think...ooooh Socialized medicine...heaven forbid!!!