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Originally Posted by Table 5
You know what, I'll gladly take it. Because in the end, there are certain guarantees that you have, even if you have to pay a few hundred dollars extra year. If you get cancer or become a paraplegic, you know you will at least be taken care of for the long term, and you don't have to mortgage your life savings, or that of your family, in order to do so.
As I mentioned above, I have a friend who takes a $12,000/dose form of medicine for his rare type of hemophilia. Luckily he's not American, but if he was, do you think he'd rather pay a little bit higher in taxes every year, instead of having to face THAT monster of a bill?
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Again, this issue seems to be dichotomous, in that you're either for the American or Canadian Health care system.
People need to take a deep breath and have a rational discussion about the European model without being labelled a reactionary.
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