OFF TOPIC.
Albert,
<<Mark as a fellow Canadian, from what I have heard the
medical system in USA isn't all bad. There is something
called medicaid which is for the poor and the elderly,
the government covers the cost.>>
I was not suggesting that it was all bad - that was not my intent. If it came across that way, then let me apologize. The point I was trying to make was, so-called "socialized medicine" is not the evil that it has been portrayed to be.
<<Perhaps an American can elaborate on how it works. >>
I would be interested in a more indepth explanation, too. Despite my training and background, I am very much opened to having any misconceptions that I carry, corrected .... but goldsnow is right - it should be moved to a new location ..... doea a topic like this have a home anywhere on SI?
<<Funny, whenever a rich and famous Canadian gets a
desease, like the premier from quebec who had
cancer (can't remember his name- Johnson?) they
head straight to the states for treatment. Maybe they know
something we don't?>
Well .... I would not agree that "whenever a rich Canadian .... " whom you are referring to, is the late Premier Bourassa ... he has a particular type of skin cancer. There was a physician (a doctor Levine, I believe) down in the states doing experimental treatment with a treatment that modifies the bodies own immune system using interlukins.
<<Regarding socialism in Canada, well, I am a welfare worker,
and the social destruction created by some policies created
by well meaning socialists have always amazed me.>>
Agree .... working in the public health system myself, I appreciate there is a lot of room for improvement. My brother is a social worker ... he'd be the first to agree. Our system is far from perfect - and it _is the "well meaning" but often misguided policies of some groups that muck it up. But .... I would rather (as I suspect you would) try and improve the model, than chuck out the baby with the bath water.
<<p.s. I have seen some places in the States where the houses
look like they have been chewed on by beavers, really
sorry sights. but then, if you are from Toronto, then
you don't have a true picture of how a lot of Canadians
live either- the poverty in some parts of the east coast
is pretty unbelievable.>>
Well ... I have been lucky in that I have done a lot of travelling. You are absolutley right again .... some of the conditions on the east coast are horrible .... certainly nothing we can be proud of.
MB |
