Hillarycare: What we're in for if we don't stop her

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Health Care that The United States Does NOT WANT.....

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This was sent from Canada to a friend in the States.



I saw on the news up here in Canada where Hillary Clinton

introduced her new health care plan. Something similar to what we have

in Canada. I also heard that Michael Moore was raving about the health

care up here in Canada in his latest movie. As your friend and someone

who lives with the Canada health care plan I thought I would give you

some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada.



First of all:



1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium

every month of $96. for Shirley and I to be covered. Sounds great eh.

What they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health

care system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of

my earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of

the exact amount goes directly to health care our #1 expense.



2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is

more like a health diagnosis system. You can get into to see a doctor

quick enough so he can tell you "yes indeed you are sick or you need an

operation" but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated on.

We have waiting lists out the ying yang some as much as 2 years down the

road.



3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in

Canada is to prescribe drugs. Have a pain here is a drug to take- not

what is causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because

it is more important to move as many patients thru as possible each hour

for Government re-imbursement



4) Many Canadians do not have a family Doctor.



5) Don't require emergency treatment as you may wait for hours in

the emergency room waiting for treatment.



6) Shirley's dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and

it required that his hand be put in a splint - to our surprise we had to

pay $125. for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus

we have to pay $60. for each visit for him to check it out each week.



7) Shirley's cousin was diagnosed with a heart blockage. Put on a

waiting list . Died before he could get treatment.



8) Government allots so many operations per year. When that is

done no more operations, unless you go to your local newspaper and plead

your case and embarrass the government then money suddenly appears.



9)The Government takes great pride in telling us how much more

they are increasing the funding for health care but waiting lists never

get shorter. Government just keeps throwing money at the problem but it

never goes away. But they are good at finding new ways to tax us, but

they don't call it a tax anymore it is now a user fee.



10) A friend needs an operation for a blockage in her leg but

because she is a smoker they will not do it. Despite paying into the

health care system all these years. My friend is 65 years old. Now

there is talk that maybe we should not treat fat and obese people either

because they are a drain on the health care system. Let me see now,

what we want in Canada is a health care system for healthy people only.

That should reduce our health care costs.



11) Forget getting a second opinion, what you see is what you get.



12) I can spend what money I have left after taxes on booze,

cigarettes, junk food and anything else that could kill me but I am not

allowed by law to spend my money on getting an operation I need because

that would be jumping the queue. I must wait my turn except if I am a

hockey player or athlete then I can get looked at right away. Go

figure. Where else in the world can you spend money to kill yourself but

not allowed to spend money to get healthy.



13) Oh did I mention that immigrants are covered automatically at

tax payer expense having never contributed a dollar to the system and

pay no premiums.



14) Oh yeah, we now give free needles to drug users to try and

keep them healthy. Wouldn't want a sickly druggie breaking into your

house and stealing your things. But people with diabetes who pay into

the health care system have to pay for their needles because it is not

covered by the health care system.



I send this out not looking for sympathy but as the election looms

in the states you will be hearing more and more about universal health

care down there and the advocates will be pointing to Canada. I just

want to make sure that you hear the truth about health care up here and

have some food for thought and informed questions to ask when broached

with this subject.



Step wisely and don't make the same mistakes we have.