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Originally Posted by BobR
... the tremendous cost (in terms of $$$ and lost freedoms) ...
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I'm having difficulty following your line(s) of thought - is this an economic or a philosophical argument? Are you suffering from the delusion that
only the federal government can compromise your freedom?
How many Americans are handcuffed to their job by a pre-existing medical condition?
Canadians have a comprehensive single-payer health insurance system. Each Canadian is
free to quit his job and look for a better one or establish an entrepreneurship without any concern of losing his family's health insurance coverage, losing eligibility to ever get health insurance again or losing coverage for pre-existing conditions. The phrase, "pre-existing condition" doesn't even exist in Canada.
That's pretty gosh-darn liberating.
If the question is about economics, consider that Canadians pay half what we do for the same or better results. They just pay it through the government instead of through employers and insurance corporations.
