[lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution?

[Carl Remick]

>From: tfast at yorku.ca
>
>Silly rabbit tricks are for kids.
>
>Every major study has shown that Canadians get better coverage (both in 
>termss
>of population and treatments) than Americans do for their health care 
>dollars.
>That is, it is simply a more effecient and comprehensive system.
>
>And back to my Dad.  The fact is that he pays not only for his health care 
>but
>also for the health care of those below the income cut off.  And that is 
>fine
>by him and fine by me.  As a student I pay zero in health premiums and zero 
>in
>income tax because I make so little money coupled with my tuition credits.
>When I do start full time emplyment I too will begin paying for myself and
>contributing to those below the income cut-off.  And Unlike your stealth 
>bomber
>I actually get to enjoy using what I pay for and enjoy seeing others use 
>what I
>have paid for.  Now please tell me you derive that same sense of joy when 
>you
>see your tax bomber fly over Bagdad.

Hey, don't be so fast to write off military spending as useless.  Canada is 
going to have to fortify its border at some point to keep desperate USers 
from swarming in and taking all your inexpensive prescription drugs ;-)

Carl