The blog administrator impresses with his insider powers.

The resident troll Dino doesn’t impress with all the “facts” he pulls out of his arse.

He could resign now, America would be proud.

Not to worry, when your state run health system is overwhelmed and nearing collapse as ours is,…

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jbjzPEY0Y3bvRD335rGu_Z3KXoQw

…you’ll be able to send the overflow the US for treatment that way we do!

http://freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/908200420/1319/

Oh wait…

I doubt it. Name any government program that gets abolished later.

Medicare came to Canada in the 60s and in most provinces was originally a government insurance plan, paid for by dedicated premiums deducted from one’s paycheque. When it was working well, about up to the late 80s, it was great for the average person. Problem is eventually the internal contradictions and inefficiency of a state monopoly take their toll.

Over time it evolved into a direct funding model where it was just rolled into the provincial revenue system. Here in Quebec, on a salary of 80k, the provincial income tax is about 12k and 2/3rds of that goes to medicare, not including the Federal contribution, so it sure isn’t “free”.

In the end, because doctors and nurses must negotiate pay scales directly with the government, their associations have evolved into defacto labour unions that carry out collective bargaining with the government just like postal workers. Naturally, being labour unions dealing with a government monopoly, you now have to deal with doctor strikes:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/1999/04/17/residents990417.html.

The reality of the situation is that there is now a market in Canada for what is called “waiting list insurance”.

http://www.acurehealth.com/

That should tell you all you need to know.

If I remember right, correct me if I’m wrong, even if it passes it will be a few years before it’s implemneted. Will that leave enough time after the 2010 elections to undue it?

The left could give a rat’s ass about “the will of the people”, LOL

And clearly Obama plans to ram this down our throats… makes you think he has more sinister plans up his sleeve on how to stay in office.

This guy is a nightmare the sort of which I’d never thought I see in the WH… God help this country

This is just another “trial balloon” by an administration that dare not tell the truth about what they really believe about our country and what they want to do to it.

Hey DINO! There you are buddy! Spoke too soon!

Hey John! You spoiled sack of shit, enjoying the system built for you by liberals and complaining about it while you benefit.

Say John, why not move your ignorant conservative ass to some third world-like, conservative American shithole like Alabama or Texas? I’m sure the people of Canada won’t miss you.

I don’t think the economyis that great either, but this is America post-conservative era. If five people are getting rich that’s all that matters. That’s pretty much been the story for the last 30 years.

That said, the debt and deficit didn’t matter to the ignorant majority (of both kinds of voters) under bush, crying about them now won’t make a bit of difference.

Face it. Your ideology failed BADLY and ran out of ideas somewhere around 2004. There’s no way you’ll be able to reinvent yourselves as outsiders once the campaigns start.

If democrats weren’t such wimps they would have nailed the republican coffin shut by now.

http://www.breitbart.tv/charming-liar-progressives-turn-on-obama-as-air-america-exposes-fascist-drug-deal/

Priceless! Even his true believers have caught on to what a brazen liar the guy is!

Oooo. The blog administrator impresses with his insider powers.

Speaking of wrong, how did decades of supporting the ruling republicans and conservatism turn out for the country?

That could happen, Carrick.

Tonight, if you don’t put down that bottle.

You’re not even in Montreal much less Canada.

Amusing that the only response you can come up with is to claim I’m not in Canada. A true intellectual heavyweight.

Anyway, in spite of the medical system problems life here is very pleasant, sort of a half British/half American “America Lite” kinda place. So I wouldn’t move for the same reason you wouldn’t move up here just for government health care; it’s home.

In any case, the US is being rapidly spent into bankruptcy by the Dems. I’ll stay up here thank you very much.

I think we’d better hope it just doesn’t pass, period.

docdave:

What depresses me most is that Americans were to taken in with this man that they elected him. Is the majority of our people that stupid and naive?

Bush’s years were good, but not good enough, and it wasn’t the Reagen 80s by any stretch. That little bit of truth was what they wrapped their Bush bashing on the economy in. Even though more people bought homes than every before on Bush’s watch, the media portrayed reality as an economic wasteland.

Bush’s reaction to 9/11 was completely understandable and foreseeable but went a bit far and was couched in fascist terms way too often. Homeland Security? It conjured visions of Nazi talk of the fatherland. Another government agency with quasi-military intelligence and police powers, and turned on the USA unlike the statutorily leashed CIA? Frightening to many.

Every step of the way the Republicans handed a large enough grain of truth for them to hyper-distort in the media, which has always been all too willing to do so.

Humans have a certain cognitive latency. A certain delay time between passionate emotional reaction and dispassionate intellectual thought. As their numbers increase, and their technological prowess at the one thing they do more than anything, talk, increases their culture must become cluttered so much that they remain more or less in a state closer to the first end than to the last.

With people not thinking so much as feeling, such social complexes are inevitable.

Cheer up though, it’s not all wine and roses for Obama. Now that he’s failing to prove himself the implied secular messiah, the public is growing in annoyance with him and it can only get worse.