In Canada not only are drugs cheaper..

[gaijinda]

Very interesting, not something one would hear about on ABC, NBC or CBS. Not to mention PBS.

BY MARK STEYN
As for Canada, yes, under socialized health care, prescription drugs are cheaper, medical treatment's cheaper, life is cheaper. After much stonewalling, the Province of Quebec's Health Department announced this week that in the last year some 600 Quebecers had died from C. difficile, a bacterium acquired in hospital. In other words, if, say, Bill Clinton had gone for his heart bypass to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he would have had the surgery, woken up the next day swimming in diarrhea and then died. It's a bacterium caused by inattention to hygiene -- by unionized, unsackable cleaners who don't clean properly; by harassed overstretched hospital staff who don't bother washing their hands as often as they should. So 600 people have been killed by the filthy squalor of disease-ridden government hospitals. That's the official number. Unofficially, if you're over 65, the hospitals will save face and attribute your death at their hands to "old age" or some such and then "lose" the relevant medical records..

One thousand Americans are killed in 18 months in Iraq, and it's a quagmire. One thousand Quebecers are killed by insufficient hand-washing in their filthy, decrepit health care system, and kindly progressive Americans can't wait to bring it south of the border. If one has to die for a cause, bringing liberty to the Middle East is a nobler venture and a better bet than government health care.

See the full article:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn24.html

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"But they have the OPTION of coming to the United States for their care!"

"But they provide universal access to health care for everyone!"

"Re-count!"

[red-beard]

Yeah, and you pay 12% on every Purchase you make, on top of the 13% sales tax, to pay for it.

With a 25% sales TAX, we wouldn't need the IRS. Canada has it all.