I know where our exports go, but you really think if the US stopped buying our shit, that we wouldn't sell it somewhere else? You know why we sell you most of our oil? Because we can run a big giant pipe right into your country.
First of all, French Canadian people don't count as people. And second, I guess the Canadian healthcare system is more concerned about taking care of everyone in Canada, not just those people who have the money.
the law states that hospitals only have to stabilize a person if they come into the ER. Medicare/Medicaid picks up some of the cost but not all of it. Theres no law that says hospitals cant turn you away for care if you're not about to die. They're getting more and more hesitant to take medicare and medicaid because it doesn't fully reiraburse them for care though. I know of a few local doctors around here and when I was in NY that wouldn't take either of them because of the low reirabursement rates
See, this is what I am talking about. You don't have to have "a lot of money" to have proper insurance. Virtually any full time job (and even some part time jobs) will have to option to purchase health insurance for yourself and your family.
But if you have known people here that were told to wait for two years to say... get a hip replaced only to head south and drop the money to get it done next week you'd see that there are benefits to both systems.
People being fat will cause more problems, a smoker will kill themselves before they cost you much while a fat person will keep on sucking up resources.
When I was living in Toronto for work for a few months everyone I worked with asked me if the US was dangerous like on TV. I was like WTF? It's almost exactly like here except better.
Except all those mofos could talk about was Cali and NY.
Why should I be responsible to pay for the health care for someone that is deliberately and directly causing the problems that they have. I'm all for helping people that have no control over their situation but when you get welfare because you weigh 500 lbs and smoke 2 packs a day I won't lose one second of sleep when they find your dead ass glued to a sofa because you could not move for 3 years.
I have been all over this entire country and in much of Canada. Canada is among the best countries on Earth to live and has some very stark advantages over this country. Foremost, their government is completely ruining and selling out their country to businesses and Mexico.
Oh and that's another thing about why i like Canada better. Once in a while, i'd say once a month i see an obese person here, when i'm in the U.S. they're everywhere.