I am an American currently living in Canada. Over the years I have had the luxury of a great government run health care system. The reactions I am seeing from the republican party is sickening. I don’t see how you can find any negative in providing health care to your people. It’s absolutley embarrassing. And somehow the republicans try and make president Obama to be the bad guy. And all this socialist talk, are you kidding me? A little structure is exactly what we need, compared to no structure of the last administration. Do the republicans forget that the policies, or lack of, brought the U.S., world economy, to its knees, and yet, they don’t want change. Will you people please pull your head out of your @$$. For example, my dad almost cut his finger off. We went to the hospital with his health card and nothing more. We were seen in 15 minutes and his finger was saved. People, government run health care is not socialism, it’s structure to help the American people. Would you as a parent let your children run the streets free, at any hour,in any neighborhood? Probably not, because structure is necessary. Lastly, I pay twice as much in taxes in Canada than in the U.S. The top percent will be footing the bill so stop your whining if its not coming out of your income. You republicans are an embarrassment world-wide and you people make us look bad. The Obama administration is a breath of fresh air compared to the previous so-called leader. Bush didn’t keep us safe. We were attacked on 911 on his watch. We were not supposed to wage war in Iraq, it was Afghanistan remember? Therfore, you did not keep us safe, every American death in Iraq was the fault of the Bush administration. Bush/Cheney/Republicans, you didn’t keep us safe. Republicans, you are the PROBLEM.

The way the system works is the funding is done via taxes. We have the PST (Provincial Sales Tax) where almost everything is taxed (7.5%) and we have the GST (Federal Goods and Services Tax) where we pay 7%.

Everybody that has a card has the right to free health care. It’s great but as with everything that is Free, some people will abuse the system. If you have to go to the emergency for any reason, your case will be evaluated and don’t be surprised if you have to wait for 6-8-10 or even 12 hours to get treated. On the other hand it has created a very large shortage of doctors and nurses.

In my case, I live very close to the Province of Ontario and they pay their nurses $15- $20K/year more than what they get paid in the province of Quebec. So it’s tough to keep are nurses.

To conclude, everybody should have access to health care. It will create abuse but if limiters are in place to weed out the “abusers” it has a very good chance at succeeding.

That is ridiculous! Seniors have more health concerns than others and as a country, we should at least make provisions for them not to have to spend high monthly insurance premiums, and they should receive their prescriptions at a cut rate. My mother often called me telling me she was broke now because she didn’t have anymore money after she paid her bills.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with government sponsored health care. You see, living in Detroit all my life, we had easy access to Canada, by way of Windsor. So, that meant we could sneak across the border and purchase prescription medicines over the counter. But, you always had to worry about getting caught by the border police.

This is America, we shouldn’t have to do this.

It doesn’t matter how much money I make in this life, I will always, always help those who are less fortunate. If God blesses me enough to be wealthy as @Tycoon Blogger, then as scripture says: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” Its not going to hurt one bit to give a little extra to make sure everyone can afford to go to the doctor.

Receiving adequate, competent medical care should be as natural as breathing in the United States.
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However I’m not much aware of such things, I read about Health Care in India on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_India

But yeah I have been listening on tv news and reading all over the net about the latest US Health care debate, ….. Seems like Mr. Obama Thinks more about the people in the country than what other countries and people in those countries are doing.
I hope Obama’s health care initiatives prove for the betterment of the people in the US.
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