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Jim Brownfield <Jim_Brownfield@Radical.Com> wrote:
>Gary L Dare writes
>> A Gallup poll
>> released on 9/13 and published only in UPI Clarinet had 96% (yes,
>> that's ninety-six) of Canadians of the opinion that our system up
>> north is better than that of America 
>
>Of course, a Gallup poll in May '93 found that 55% of Canadians
>expect their standard of living to decline over the next 20 years.

Fine, so we're in the same boat as everyone else ...

>I don't think this is unrelated to health care and other government  
>spending in Canada.

Since the %GDP spent it less, that's not what is at fault.  And of
all the trimming proposals, none address scrapping our basic health
isnurance approach.  The most conservative of them, a western Canadian
traditionalist rump called Reform, yesterday advocated an approach more
like what the French do (see below).

>Medical care in Canada is being seen as a target for cutbacks (source
>WSJ 8/27/93 pg. 1).  So it would seem, that the situation up north is
>not as rosy as some would have us believe.

Name me one advanced western country where their health costs are not
growing and applying pressures to overall spending ...  When you have
a public insurance with terms more generous than what most Fortune
500's offer in the U.S. of course it makes sense to cut back ...
however, affected areas are things like vasectomy reversals and
electrolysis.

Since the care providers are themselves private, that's seperate from
the insurance itself ... whatever happens to the insurance, they'll
still be there ... and myself, I wouldn't mind privatizing some of
the benefits as the French and the Germans have always done ...

>America doesn't need any more socialism; Canadian or otherwise.

Please calm down and check your history: there were no socialists
in power at the time we changed the insurance setup.  Nor where there
in France, Germany and Japan unless there's something about Bismarck,
the Gaullists and the last Shogun that you know about and we don't ...

gld
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