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To: Webster Groves who wrote (18316)	3/19/2007 6:06:55 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The subject is always fungeable. You don't want to discuss the quality of Canadian health care when it is worse than American health care. I have seen no evidence to support your claim that there is an area in which Canadian health care has faster performance than in America. We know that governments who interfere with the free market can only appear to help their citizens while there is a working free market somewhere else that pays the cost of innovation. Government does not belong in health care any more than government belongs raising children. People should be allowed to purchase as much health care as they wish. People should be allowed to barter for health care services if they choose. "I use the word with all the warmth and sincerity it deserves." There are too many people who resort to name calling too easily. If you are curious, prior to 2006, I was one of those. Nobody is perfect, so I choose discourse with people who challenge me to think.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (18316)	3/19/2007 6:24:45 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 71588

"PS - People with money go where they can buy the best care. People without money rely on a government plan or doing without, depending upon where they live." so the best care is in the USA, yeah we already knew that.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (18316)	3/21/2007 9:27:47 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

The point is examining the disparity between one group of healthcare recipients in Canada and the general population is to put a backdrop to the debate that some small group of individuals in Canada might receive good healthcare, while most languish waiting for a the socialist system to finish taking care of the elites and get to their turn. "People with money go where they can buy the best care." Which is why so many Canadians come to the US for medical care after learning they will have to wait six months or more for a procedure.