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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
The biggest difference between Canadians and Americans, and it has nothing to do with compassion, is that Americans as a whole do not believe that government is really all that efficient when it comes to running/managing anything. They mistrust public administration (And quite rightfully so). So they're a little weary of handing their lives over to a government bureaucracy.
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Considering what I saw working for an HMO, I have a very hard time believing that anything could be any less efficient. But I didn't mind the company picking up the tab for lunch when we went out as a group, or paying for us to play Starcraft (we called it "standby in case of an emergency") or giving out huge bonuses to people who sat on their asses talking about football all day. I currently work for the Canadian government and while I might not get fired for that type of behaviour, I would get raked over the coals. But the HMO didn't seem to mind. Main reason I left working for them: I would go home at night feeling that I didn't accomplish anything useful during the day.