🚀 go-pugleaf

On 08/04/09 3:04 AM, in article
11475894-a4ae-489f-8880-8769b7e650a5@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com,
"the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 4, 4:44�pm, "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:...
>> 
>>> "the_dawggie" <the_dawg...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:c61f5169-b8c4-41a8-8a9b-4c4f8d0c9dcf@i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Aug 4, 3:14 pm, "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "aaron from suburbia" <suburbanl...@mail.com> wrote in
>>>> messagenews:51fb5a8c-79c4-4b1e-8334-11230faee281@o6g2000yqj.googlegroups.co
>>>> m...
>>>> On Aug 4, 12:00 am, "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> "aaron from suburbia" <suburbanl...@mail.com> wrote in
>>>>> messagenews:74968f8f-5d14-4a62-994e-0bf6643fa0b0@v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.
>>>>> com...
>>>>> On Aug 3, 11:49 pm, "%" <pers...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> "Tropical AJ" <suburbanl...@mail.com> wrote in message
>> 
>>>>>> news:ef282027-005d-4d9e-b4de-8bc100d94e69@o6g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>> 
>>>>>>> http://m.pbpost.com/pbpost/db_14145/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=89D4...
>> 
>>>>>>> This happened in a building right in front of mine.
>> 
>>>>>>> Good thing I have Josh to bark at anyone thinking about breaking
>>>>>>> in,
>>>>>>> hopefully they'll think twice. But if that fails, thankfully, I'm
>>>>>>> *not* unarmed..
>> 
>>>>>> but you're still the top beach dog right
>> 
>>>>> Josh is, yeah.
>> 
>>>>> so like are there any babes around there or ,
>>>>> should i stay here with the inflamed doe
>> 
>>>> there are more babes here than I can count.
>>>> You should get away from BC Canada for while,
>>>> in the winter,
>>>> and check 'em out.
>> 
>>>> it crosses my mind , i checked out California ,
>>>> and all the way over to New York , but ,
>>>> i never been near that far south
>> 
>>> Slunky and % are not allowed South, our border patrol/customs would
>>> know
>>> what to think. Actually two words would cover it.
>> 
>>> There are about five choices for first word and about four for second
>>> word.
>> 
>>> HTH
>> 
>>> --
>>> Kipland.
>> 
>>> but i've been to 17 states across I -80 ,
>>> you sure crossed your sense makin line now , blowhole
> 
> You live on a shitehole patch of land shared wih other countries.
> I live on an island. My ancestors came from islands (UK Ireland)
> 
> 
> Canada rates closer to AU than USA, both countries are not
> in our ballpark.

i've just been reading about your health care system. it seems pretty
similar to ours, except you've got a 1.5% "health tax" levy (ours is funded
from general revenue) and you have some kind of hornswoggle where the
patient still has to pay between 15% and 25% of the bill for GP and
specialist services. yikes. in canada the patient doesn't pay anything.

> Obama wants .AU Medicare. If he can implement it good on
> him - I like the guy. There are a few gotchas in that. We are finding
> Medicare are cutting back.

here too. back in the 80s we could go to the doctor and get a wart removed
for nothing. now it falls under cosmetic procedure and we pay out of pocket.
eye exams are no longer covered except for people with eye-threatening
conditions. annoyingly, the PSA blood test, widely used as an early
detection tool for prostatic cancer, isn't covered. the fee is currently $30
and edging upward like everything else. (odd how nothing ever edges down.)

> Hell I was a patient in hospital listening
> to a doctor telling a patient "You are well - out of here tommorow".
> The sad fact is that patient was using that hospital as a hotel - he
> told me (I"m fed, washed - it's much better than home)

every public benefit system is going to have people who abuse it. it's
possibly the only valid objection to having public benefit systems, and an
area that calls for continuous vigilance when you have them.