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   Mighty Mouse said, 11 months ago

   This foreigner is genuinely happy that the USA is now going to be better off and moved itself from third world status in this regard.
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   Mighty Mouse said, 11 months ago

   I think it’s only Botswana and one or two others left that don have a viable national health care system.
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   Mighty Mouse said, 11 months ago

   Not sure about Botswana.
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   Justice22 said, 11 months ago

   The thing I hate is that the insurance companies are still winners. Big profits for the CEOs!
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   SkepticCal said, 11 months ago

   @Mighty Mouse

   No health care in America?

   Why did Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland, abandon the wonderful healthcare delay scheme of Canada for heart surgery in America?
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   DrCanuck said, 11 months ago

   @SkepticCal

   ^ Disproven a thousand times.

   
   And you know it. Yet you STILL repeat the lie. Ideology over truth. Shame.
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   SkepticCal said, 11 months ago

   @DrCanuck

   Are you stating that the Danny Williams episode did not happen?
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   neuturn said, 11 months ago

   @

   Why would any one want something that is a tax this big that has not been thoroughly read? As a middle income employed resident of this country, I will now be responsible to pay for those who will decide to pay the penalty they cannot afford. Then the government cannot collect from those on government subsidies because they cannot put wage with-holdings on the type of income they receive. Because of this my premiums will begin to rise a little at at time as things begin to be implimented. That would be a reason I would want to vote that way. I agree there is a definate need for reform in the healthcare business. Let’s figure out how to have everyone pay for their own instead of those like me. As has been noted by some, the rich will vbe able to afford the increase but those in the middleclass will struggle.
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   ARodney said, 11 months ago

   Danny Williams got heart surgery in the US, Sarah Palin got free health care in Canada growing up. The anecdotes are cute, but irrelevant compared to the actual statistics — Canadians get much more comprehensive heatlh care, get it quicker, get it cheaper, give more support to medical research, and no one there dies purely because they don’t have the money. We’re barbarians in this regard, and Obamacare only gets us part-way to civilized norms.
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    Tigger said, 11 months ago

    Then only thing that kept The Affordable Care Act from being deemed Unconstitutional is the $5,000.00 penalty to be levied on anyone who fails to buy Health Insurance, without this penalty, The ACA would have been deemed Unconstitutional.
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    Tigger said, 11 months ago

    @ARodney

    Why do many Canadians come here for Health Care?

    Answer: The wait for basic Health Care in Canada is months.
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    Kylop said, 11 months ago

    Jeff, well done. Life is imitating art all over the comments section today.
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    Tigger said, 11 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Really? Explain this:

    http://www.darkdaily.com/newfoundland-premier-danny-williams-heart-surgery-in-the-u-s-triggers-debate-on-healthcare-in-canada-224#axzz1zCXmSBv0

    Here is proof this happened
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    SkepticCal said, 11 months ago

    @ARodney

    Thank you for your cute anecdotes.
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    lonecat said, 11 months ago

    @Tigger

    Here’s a paragraph from the article you cite:

    “Conservative Senator Wilbert Keon, a retired heart surgeon and professor emeritus at University of Ottawa, told the Toronto Star that Newfoundland lacks the equipment and post-op technical support for advanced complicated cardiac procedures. But complicated heart surgery can be done at Ottawa’s Heart Institute and in Toronto, Montreal, and Edmonton, he said. “I can’t imagine anything that couldn’t be done in Canada that is done in America,” he added.”

    So, Tigger, you should read the articles you cite.
    On a personal note I might add that my cousin is a cardiac surgeon in Toronto, and he does the operation.
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