Weiser as smarty-pants:
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Well, that's a particularly silly statement, given the fact that the
vast
majority of your "huge country" is uninhabited and uninhabitable.
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And that's a particularly stupid statement gven that your system (your
whole country, relative to Canada) has economies of scale (or is that
an unknown concept to you?).

It basically matters not what we're talking about -- healthcare,
railways, highways, telecommunications, etc -- the per capita cost of
providing services in Canada will be higher -- significantly higher --
than similar costs in the USA.

So my point remains: even at similar levels of service, Canadian costs
(hence taxes) will be higher. .

frtzw906

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

You're nitpicking. Forty percent is still a lot to pay for somebody else's
health care.

Yer still both math and fact challenged. Why don't you give up, dickhead?

Mike

A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

You're nitpicking. Forty percent is still a lot to pay for somebody else's
health care.

Yer still both math and fact challenged. Why don't you give up, dickhead?

Because poking Netwits like you through the bars of your cage is so much
fun!
--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser

A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 20-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Wow! Forty-eight percent of income for health care that you can't get when
you need it. What a bargain!

Bull**** from weiser once again. He obviously can't read or think.

Take a pill, your blood pressure is spiking...


...and you can't buy supplemental insurance to protect yourself even if you
want to. Talk about your socialistic, egalitarian "share the pain"
bedfellows...Canada and North Korea don't care a fig if you, the individual,
suffers, they only care that everyone suffers together in comradely
communistic solidarity, while paying 48% of income for the privilege. Bleah.

More bull****. You can buy supplemental health insurance.

Nope, not for hospitalization or surgery.

It's sold by
many insurance companies. Maritime Life is one of the bigger players in
supplemental health insurance.

Funny, a credible AP reporter says Canadians are prohibited from buying
outside insurance for hospitalization and surgery. Canadians may be able to
buy supplemental insurance for outpatient services, but if you get *really*
sick, and need a hospital bed and surgery, you're ****ed.


Go back under your rock, weiser, we don't need any more of your
lies and BS on this newsgroup.

Er...make me.

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Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Take a pill, your blood pressure is spiking...

**** off, dickhead. You are still posting nothing but lies and
bull**** and still wouldn't know a fact if it bit you in the
ass.

Nope, not for hospitalization or surgery.

Bull**** again. Not all medical care is covered by government
health care and you _can_ buy insurance for the rest. I live here
and I have such coverage. You haven't got a clue what you're
talking about, as usual.

Funny, a credible AP reporter says Canadians are prohibited from buying
outside insurance for hospitalization and surgery.

Yer credible AP reporter is wrong. Tough ****.

Mike

A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Take a pill, your blood pressure is spiking...

**** off, dickhead. You are still posting nothing but lies and
bull**** and still wouldn't know a fact if it bit you in the
ass.

How erudite. How scholarly. How persuasive. Not.


Nope, not for hospitalization or surgery.

Bull**** again. Not all medical care is covered by government
health care and you _can_ buy insurance for the rest. I live here
and I have such coverage. You haven't got a clue what you're
talking about, as usual.

Funny, a credible AP reporter says Canadians are prohibited from buying
outside insurance for hospitalization and surgery.

Yer credible AP reporter is wrong. Tough ****.

And we should take YOUR word for it because....???

--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser

On 22-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

And we should take YOUR word for it because....???

Because I actually have the insurance you claim is illegal
and impossible to get.

You claim to be a journalist and editor and you don't have
any concern for the truth. Perhaps the AP writer went
to the same school of dickhead journalism that you did.

Mike

In article , Michael Daly
wrote:

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Take a pill, your blood pressure is spiking...

**** off, dickhead.


A killfile would work better

A Usenet persona calling itself Warren wrote:

In article , Michael Daly
wrote:

On 21-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Take a pill, your blood pressure is spiking...

**** off, dickhead.


A killfile would work better

Indeed. He's of the pinheaded stripe that ought to use a killfile.

killfiles are the final refuge of fractional intellects. It's the Usenet
equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "NYAH, NYAH,
NYAH, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

It's the tactics of a four year old, which fits Michael pretty well.

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Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!" TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser

"Scott Weiser" wrote in message
...
Interesting story today in the Boulder Daily Camera about the
Canadian
health care crisis. Page 4B.



Not only pre-emptive letters, but it's enough of a problem that
they have a "Western Canada Waiting list Project"
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/...urnalcode=cmaj


great line is this report..
"...Overall, 109 patients (1.4%) had a major cardiac event,
namely, death,
myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure..."
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/...urnalcode=cmaj











It's by Beth Duff-Brown of the Associated Press.

"A letter from the Moncton Hospital to a New Brunswick heart
patient in need
of an electrocardiogram said the appointment would be in three
months. It
added: 'If the person named on this computer-generated letter
is deceased,
please accept our sincere apologies.'"

The article says the patient wasn't dead, but this letter
provides cold
comfort to those who obviously do die before they get medical
care in
Canada, evidently in sufficient numbers to persuade health care
workers to
apologize in advance.

"The average Canadian family pays about 48 percent of its
income in taxes
each year, partly to fund the health care system. Rates vary
from province
to province, but Ontario, the most populous, spends roughly 40
percent of
every tax dollar on health care, according to the Canadian
Taxpayers
Federation."

Wow! Forty-eight percent of income for health care that you
can't get when
you need it. What a bargain!

"George Zeliotis told the court he suffered pain and became
addicted to
painkillers during a yearlong wait for hip replacement surgery,
and hsould
have been allowed to pay for faster service. His physician, Dr.
Jacques
Chaoulli, said his patient's constitutional rights were
violated because
Quebec couldn't provide the care he needed, but didn't offer
him the option
of getting it privately."

And then there's this:

"But tell that to the hospital administrators constantly having
to cut staff
for lack of funds, or to the mother whose teenager was advised
she would
have to wait up to three years for surgery to repair a torn
knee ligament."

So much for the "I can get private health care whenever I want
in Canada"
argument...

"[A]ccording to experts on both sides of the debate, Canada and
North Korea
are the only countries with laws banning the purchase of
insurance for
hospitalization or surgery."

...and you can't buy supplemental insurance to protect yourself
even if you
want to. Talk about your socialistic, egalitarian "share the
pain"
bedfellows...Canada and North Korea don't care a fig if you,
the individual,
suffers, they only care that everyone suffers together in
comradely
communistic solidarity, while paying 48% of income for the
privilege. Bleah.

It also seems that the average wait time between referral and
treatment has
risen from 9.3 days to 17.9 days since 1993.

What's more, the percentage of Canadians who had same-day
access to a doctor
when sick or needing medical attention is the lowest (27%) of
all when
compared to New Zealand (60%), Australia (54%), Britain (41%),
and the
USA (33%).

And, Canada has the lowest ratio of practicing physicians per
1000 persons
(2.1) of all when compared to Italy (4.4), Belgium (3.9),
France (3.3),
Australia (2.5), and the USA (2.4).

(Sources cited in the article: Fraser Institute; Organization
for Economic
Cooperation and Development; The Commonwealth Fund: Bank of
Canada.)

--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

"I love the Internet, I no longer have to depend on
friends, family and co-workers, I can annoy people WORLDWIDE!"
TM

© 2005 Scott Weiser