Canadians Want Two Tier Health Care Poll Claims

Now that the election is on all these stink tank-porta thoughties are going to be coming out with their see-I-polled-you-soes, to get the attention of the voters and the ugly smiles of the politicians.

No offence, but I find these polls insulting to my intellegence and I don't like to see them given any credence.

Yah, I'm not into the polls either, and I think we want two tier health care, just like we want BMD and boils all over our bodies!!! Who the heck are they polling, the con party headquarters???

---
If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Oh man. You do know that 2/3 of us DO want boils don't you Whelan Costan? Get with the pollgram.

In Britain the National Health Service exists side by side with private services, sometimes trading patients back and forth depending on which can provide services quicker or better - and no one goes without health care. Canadians don't have this choice, that's the law. If you suffer in a line-up in Canada - tough luck - it's not compassionate, but it is Canadian. Yippee.

There is a Quebec case on this very question that will be handed down by the supreme court this summer. the plaintiff is challenging the legality of prohibiting patients from paying for medical services when they desire to do so. THe system could come crashing down this summer.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE ROMANOW REPORT?

---
Dave Ruston

Been to a dentist lately? If you include the wait time, a thousand bucks per hour would have covered it! My private insurance coughed up for less than half, and likely spends more coaxing me to their company than they do on claims.

This is private medicine: no control on what they can charge, no concence, just a gun to your head, disguised as a drill.

OH, I can hardly wait until our whole medical system looks like the dental sector! But I am sure that you are right, the private sector will hand them back to the public after they have picked their pockets and have the title for their homes. And being efficient, this won't take long!

People who support a private system in my opinion has a touch of selfshiness to them. Why? Well its a fact that under the private system many can't afford health care. This may be easy for these people to accept, but not for people who believes all should have access regardless of income. The public system is the only way. It needs work and changes as suggested in the Romanow Report. That's all it needs.

I'm starting to feel that corporations will win this fight, however the outlash it will create will force our government to bring back the public system.

Kevin

---
"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

Anon <br><br> In Britain they DO have private medical service since Maggy Thatcher and the service in the public sector went south subsequently.

Dave, again, all caps is unacceptable. Don't make me put in code to prevent such posts; voluntary compliance with well-established netiquette is much easier for all of us and makes the conversation much more enjoyable.

---
Jesse

Dave,

It would be much more acceptable with guidelines here if you juse use <b> and closing code </b> between main points you want emphasized.

Ex:
<b>Dave</b> and make sure that you put Post Mode: as HTML.

Kevin

---
"Love actually, is all around us" --From the movie Love Actually.

Nobody is stopping anybody from paying for private health care. If you want to pull the money out of your pocket you are more than welcome to do so. So lets stop the BS, the real goal of you privatizers is to have everybody pay for health care with their taxes and have user fees that they have to pay on top of that. Just like everything the Liberals and Conservatives are proposing this too requires double payment. Pay the government and pay the corporations too. I want a "no tears" health care system with dental coverage too.

Kevin,

I know that all sounds elementary to you (<b>???), but for people who do not program or whatever it is you're doing there, I have no clue what you've just tried to explain to Dave. It's complete gobbledegook. It's like reading Bla, Bla, Bla.

Jesse,

Have you had a tramatic experience with capital letters or something? Who besides you is Dave offending? I have never once read a comment anywhere on the web I've been where someone has been offended by capital letters. What's up?