From Ceaser
As Canadians, we all pay a moderate amount so that those with huge expenses don't go without care and die.
Ceaser, $16,000 a year is NOT a moderate amount. I lived in the States for a couple of years and paid for personal health insurance and even with matching funds from my employer and personal out of pocket expenses I paid nothing like those types of sums. I was the sole bread-winner at the time, my wife not being allowed to work in the States.
What $16,000 represents now, and that actually is less affordable under my current circumstances, is an insurance premium of $1300 per month. The fact that a $1300 premium gets me and my family the type of care that it does is the cause of my "aggravation".
I am not against supporting those that are unable to pay the freight. I would fully support, based on a means test, paying the premiums for the indigent and catastrophic costs for the many.
What I have a problem with is this government insurance and supply monopoly, bureaucrats rationing care and denying me the opportunity to purchase such care as I wish to ensure my family's future.
Bottom line, I would rather have a choice of three or four private suppliers working for profit, sure in the knowledge that at least one of them is trying to gouge me, than trust some faceless, grey bureaucrat buried in some dungeon someplace rationing my family's care "dispassionately" and delivering it six months too late.
By the way I am 48 years old, have two teen-agers, have buried both of my parents and my father-in-law due to cancer. I have had ample opportunity to see both the Canadian and US systems at work.
Notwithstanding the problems with car insurance, I would sooner use car insurance as a model than the current mess in which we find ourselves.
Rant Ends, Over.....