Its over, the Dems win

[PDUB]

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

Sorry it was unclear. I know it's shocking. My share of health insurance, therefore healthcare, costs as much as my share of taxes needed to run the entire rest of the country.

This is according to my monthly with-holding statements and known insurance costs.

This is pretty much meaningless, since it depends on both your particular ins. policy and your tax bracket... and, no doubt, both are too high! But, with a statement like this you imply that the cost of healthcare in the US is equivalent to the cost of running the whole government, which is inaccurate.

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

I live in a northern state as well and it is not uncommon for folks to cross the border to the nearest good medical center in a larger city...

Surprised to hear that the good folk of Bismark head to Canada for their healthcare! Seems like a long drive. In all of the experience that I have in dealing with patients... in all conversations with folks from Canada, or even the UK for that matter... I have never once heard of Americans going to use other systems out of choice. No doubt it happens out of necessity on rare occasions, and by choice even less, but not very often (we are not talking about extenuating geographic circumstances that would trump choice on either side). And never once did I hear from them that, "we prefer to get healthcare in Canada, but we are settling for the second rate services we get here in the states..." On the contrary, they complained about their home systems, and that is why they came here.

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

I imagine Wayne Maybury and others are worried Canada might lose their system if the US caves in to the huge healthcare juggernaut scam we have here.

Huh???

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

I see you worked in health-care PDUB. I imagine you didn't get much of the money. People that work rarely do. You might reconsider which tree to bark up.

Wes

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Gee, thanks for the tip Wes.