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Originally posted by Dennis Kalma
And for you Canadians who are reading, yes, I am renouncing my Canadian citizenship and have recovered my Dutch citizenship, largely in protest over how poorly our government treated the US during events of September 11, 2001.
Dennis
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I have no idea what you are on about in terms of your examples of Canadian freedoms. All are bogus afaic. But let's keep on topic.
Canadians generally closely guard the universal access to medical care as much as Americans guard the principles passed down by their founding fathers. Private health insurance on services covered by the public health system is viewed as the same as allowing private rather than public payment for such services.
So the root issue is not health insurance - it's who pays for those services that are provided by the public system that may be in conflict with the principles of universal/equal access.
Wealthier Canadians are starting to take exception to the "no private healthcare" principal because they feel that they should be able to take their greater wealth and apply it to better health. They argue that none suffer if they pay for incremental healthcare.
Advocates of the public provided system argue that the provision of private services will always compromise public services to some extent.
Most medical funding/insurance systems in the world more closely mirror the Canadian model - almost none mirror the US model, BTW.