Hi Godload.
Actually, free heart surgeries are available in the USA; no one is thrown out on the street. If the service can't be performed for free, then donations are solicited to perform the service. Americans are generous and can afford to be. Some Americans complain that they can get free heart surgery, but have to pay for the drugs to keep them alive. I guess it boils down to the argument whether healthcare is a right or not. That's another debate.
Canada has a substandard healthcare system. That's why so many Canadians go to the US to get healed. Canada's Fraser Institute just released this report on October 19, 2004. Here is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal:
Yes, your prisoners get better healthcare than your law-abiding citizens.
SARS kicked Canada's butt. China had a 6% death rate from SARS; Canada had a 15% death rate from SARS. The US, which had 73 cases of SARS, had zero deaths. You mean to tell me that Communist China has much better medical care than a Western country?
Many Canadians I've talked to say that although the state (aka taxes) pay for healthcare, a lot of times you get it on their terms, often having to wait for hours to be seen by a doctor even with an appointment, or having surgeries put off for weeks or even months, and often there are copayments that patients have to pay, just like with an American HMO. If my appendix burst I would hope it could be taken care of with an efficiency greater than that found at the Post Office. As much as Canadians pay in taxes they should have been able to cure death by now. An article from Canada.com in March of 2003 said that between 3 and 4 million Canadians couldn't get a family doctor.
Canada sends home people to die if they forget their health card!
Let's point out something else that should be obvious to anyone who has a semi-active brain stem. In Canada, the state has a MONOPOLY on healthcare. What happens in any monopoly? Poor service. Waste. Cost inflation. That's a fact. It doesn't matter if you don't see the waste, spelled out in clear terms at the top of the front page of the newspaper. It's there in any noncompetitive business situation, and in Canada's case, the taxpayers pick up the slack. In the US, you have many healthcare providers all competing to have the most professional staff, the most modern and pleasant facilities, and the lowest overhead. The customer wins.
Let's not forget that, according to the UN, the USA has a higher Quality Of Life than Canada does.
When a US company launches a drug, it gets a patent that prohibits another company from selling the same drug for usually around 10 years. When the patent expires, any other company can sell their "generic” versions of the drug. Since the generic versions required no R&D costs, they cost much less than the original. Most of these drugs are the result of American R&D. To launch a drug, a company must first undergo years of R&D. Once the drug is developed, it must endure a rigorous Federal approval process. By the time the drug gets to the market, the company has typically spent about $1 Billion of its own money.
To recover this investment, the company must charge its US customers a "blended price" for the drug. That is: [the “marginal cost” (cost to make each new unit-(say $5)] + [a “fixed cost” (premium to help pay down its huge investment - (say $50)].
Canada has laws that force the drug companies to sell the drugs at the marginal cost only (i.e. the $5) + a small profit (say $1). There is also the fact that the Canadian dollar is weaker, which makes their generic drugs cheaper.
The US produces the vast majority of new drugs on the market.
I am aware that Flemming discovered penicillin - in 1928. Flemming was also from the UK.
Our taxes also go to education and infrastructure. You also, in many instances, have to pay deductables for your healthcare. Also, some of your taxes go towards having over 300,000 baby harp seals clubbed and skinned alive per year.
The 2nd Amendment allows US citizens the right to bear arms. There is a reason for that. It keeps our govt in check. Hitler disarmed his citizens. You know what he did to the Jews. It's not going to happen here. The UK disarmed its citizens but is surprised when the bad guys didn't turn in thier firearms!
Your 60,000 figure is simply not true. It is about 8000.
There are 1.4 million registered gun owners in Canada, and about 667,000 (one-half) unregistered gun owners are protesting by refusing to register, even after the government waived the registration fee. 2 Million is about equal to the total populations of Detroit, Washington DC and Saint Louis combined; three of America's bloodiest cities. The article that I linked to says, "The law does little to curb gun use by criminals, and criminals are obtaining firearms easily illegally, or in some instances legally." Unregistered guns are harder to track, so have fun trying to run down the criminals who do have them, and do use them on Canadian civilians and cops. No serial numbers, no ballistics tests. Have fun with that little forensics nightmare.
Btw, I believe that your gun registry law was supposed to cost $2 million, but is up to over $1 billion now. Another example of govt "efficiency."
Actually, free heart surgeries are available in the USA; no one is thrown out on the street. If the service can't be performed for free, then donations are solicited to perform the service. Americans are generous and can afford to be. Some Americans complain that they can get free heart surgery, but have to pay for the drugs to keep them alive. I guess it boils down to the argument whether healthcare is a right or not. That's another debate.
Canada has a substandard healthcare system. That's why so many Canadians go to the US to get healed. Canada's Fraser Institute just released this report on October 19, 2004. Here is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal:
Voters yearning for the federal government to start rationing American health care might want to take note of a study just released by our neighbors up north. The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute yesterday published its 14th annual report on hospital waiting times in Canada. In medical terms, the patient is not responding to increasing doses of dollars -- and the prognosis is not good. Under Canada's government-run health-care monopoly, Fraser reports that the average wait for hospital treatment is 17.9 weeks. That's the average over 12 specialties and 10 provinces. To take just one example, the projected wait for hip-replacement surgery in British Columbia is 52 weeks. "These waiting times are the longest that Canadians have ever experienced," notes Fraser's senior health policy analyst, Nadeem Esmail. And "they exist despite record levels of health spending."
The waiting times have fueled Canada's growing gray market in health care. Patients seeking to avoid the pain or inconvenience of long waits increasingly seek treatment in private clinics.... Paying a private clinic for a hip replacement or a cataract operation isn't always strictly legal -- there are laws limiting the treatment private clinics may provide -- but the government understands the political expediency of looking the other way.
The government itself uses private clinics for Royal Canadian Mounted Police, provincial workman's compensation cases and prison inmates. Thus the Canadian joke about the prisoner who asks his cellmate, "What are you in for?" Answer: "Hip replacement." If all else fails, there's always the American option. Timely Medical Alternatives, a private company in Vancouver, contracts with hospitals south of the border to care for Canadian patients.
Fraser demonstrates Canada's universal health care system has created shortages that leave sick Canadians wanting. There are many things to admire about Canada, but medical care is not one of them.
Yes, your prisoners get better healthcare than your law-abiding citizens.
SARS kicked Canada's butt. China had a 6% death rate from SARS; Canada had a 15% death rate from SARS. The US, which had 73 cases of SARS, had zero deaths. You mean to tell me that Communist China has much better medical care than a Western country?
Many Canadians I've talked to say that although the state (aka taxes) pay for healthcare, a lot of times you get it on their terms, often having to wait for hours to be seen by a doctor even with an appointment, or having surgeries put off for weeks or even months, and often there are copayments that patients have to pay, just like with an American HMO. If my appendix burst I would hope it could be taken care of with an efficiency greater than that found at the Post Office. As much as Canadians pay in taxes they should have been able to cure death by now. An article from Canada.com in March of 2003 said that between 3 and 4 million Canadians couldn't get a family doctor.
Canada sends home people to die if they forget their health card!
Let's point out something else that should be obvious to anyone who has a semi-active brain stem. In Canada, the state has a MONOPOLY on healthcare. What happens in any monopoly? Poor service. Waste. Cost inflation. That's a fact. It doesn't matter if you don't see the waste, spelled out in clear terms at the top of the front page of the newspaper. It's there in any noncompetitive business situation, and in Canada's case, the taxpayers pick up the slack. In the US, you have many healthcare providers all competing to have the most professional staff, the most modern and pleasant facilities, and the lowest overhead. The customer wins.
Let's not forget that, according to the UN, the USA has a higher Quality Of Life than Canada does.
When a US company launches a drug, it gets a patent that prohibits another company from selling the same drug for usually around 10 years. When the patent expires, any other company can sell their "generic” versions of the drug. Since the generic versions required no R&D costs, they cost much less than the original. Most of these drugs are the result of American R&D. To launch a drug, a company must first undergo years of R&D. Once the drug is developed, it must endure a rigorous Federal approval process. By the time the drug gets to the market, the company has typically spent about $1 Billion of its own money.
To recover this investment, the company must charge its US customers a "blended price" for the drug. That is: [the “marginal cost” (cost to make each new unit-(say $5)] + [a “fixed cost” (premium to help pay down its huge investment - (say $50)].
Canada has laws that force the drug companies to sell the drugs at the marginal cost only (i.e. the $5) + a small profit (say $1). There is also the fact that the Canadian dollar is weaker, which makes their generic drugs cheaper.
The US produces the vast majority of new drugs on the market.
I am aware that Flemming discovered penicillin - in 1928. Flemming was also from the UK.
Our taxes also go to education and infrastructure. You also, in many instances, have to pay deductables for your healthcare. Also, some of your taxes go towards having over 300,000 baby harp seals clubbed and skinned alive per year.
That could be, in part, because the Canadian grading scale makes it MUCH EASIER to pass. In the US, a 64% or below is an F. In Canada, a 49% and below is an F. In Canada, a 60%, which will fail you in the US, will get you a C+. An 80%, which is a C in the US, is an A- in Canada. I have heard Canadians mock President Bush for being a C student at Harvard (a school with tough academic standards), but if he was in Canada, he would be an A- student.Also your public education system is a piece of crap. Your students rank below Canadian students in the world in the Maths, and Sciences. I think the US ranks like 30 in the world in public education from what I saw on CNN today.
Actually, teen AIDS and STDS have went up since the liberals started to teach teenage sex in the classroom. Thank you liberals for taking that out of the hands of the family.But In Texas which implemented a soley abstinance program into their sex education in public schools, they have the highest teen Aids, teen std, and pregnancy rates compared with the rest of the other states. This was the greatest contribution by your Republican counterparts. They are doing a great job.
Not nearly as hypocritical as I find it when people are against the death penalty (like Canadians), but yet Canada murders over 100,000 babies every year.Also I find it quite hypocritical that GW is pro-life and anti-abortion, but he allows the Assault rifle ban to expire? Do you know 60000 Americans die from fire arms every year?
Actually, they don't think women should have the right to commit murder.According to the Republican Party Jesus Christ doesn't want women to have a right to choose
The 2nd Amendment allows US citizens the right to bear arms. There is a reason for that. It keeps our govt in check. Hitler disarmed his citizens. You know what he did to the Jews. It's not going to happen here. The UK disarmed its citizens but is surprised when the bad guys didn't turn in thier firearms!
Your 60,000 figure is simply not true. It is about 8000.
There are 1.4 million registered gun owners in Canada, and about 667,000 (one-half) unregistered gun owners are protesting by refusing to register, even after the government waived the registration fee. 2 Million is about equal to the total populations of Detroit, Washington DC and Saint Louis combined; three of America's bloodiest cities. The article that I linked to says, "The law does little to curb gun use by criminals, and criminals are obtaining firearms easily illegally, or in some instances legally." Unregistered guns are harder to track, so have fun trying to run down the criminals who do have them, and do use them on Canadian civilians and cops. No serial numbers, no ballistics tests. Have fun with that little forensics nightmare.
Btw, I believe that your gun registry law was supposed to cost $2 million, but is up to over $1 billion now. Another example of govt "efficiency."