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[matrox_anger_me]

"it's a society thing" should be their new motto.
for all you canadians, NDP ALL THE WAY!!!!

[spoogenet]

Originally posted by matrox_anger_me
yes, true that there are long line-ups. but remember, there are also some americans that come to canada for cheap healthcare because they can't afford things like, $500,000 USD for a simple heart attack, that someone without insurance in canada only pays $2,$3 grand for. all-in-all, america leans towards personal gain, while canada sticks more to society in general. all schools get same funding, and we have to pay like, 150 a month from our property tax for education because we believe that public education is in the publics best interest.

Well, America adheres pretty well to capitalism....what else would you expect in the US?

A good portion of the most advanced medical research comes out of private American companies and corporate funded academic research. Almost all medical research comes out of the industrialized nations. There are reasons for this trend. One very good reason for this is the capital gain when the research succeeds.

Take away the capital incentives, and you will probably see much less research done. Everything comes at a price, advanced medical techniques, unfortunately, have high price tags. However we wouldn't have them in the first place if people weren't making money by developing them.

Not a whole lot in the world is done purely from the "goodness" of people's hearts. Money talks. It may be unfortunate, but again, we wouldn't be where we are today without it.

And don't even waste your breath trying to compare any other country's public education system to that of America. There are just too many differences (social, economic, culture, language) to make much of a comparison. There are even vast differences from state to state and from city to city within a state.

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[Wombat]

This thread had been quiet for a while, but I found an article that was just too apropos.

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/story.asp?id={83AC9AA4-9EC0-49FD-8542-09A401BA7428}

Homeless Canadians AND their drunk, argumentative, government representative. Read carefully, and you'll find one guy that's employed and <I>still</I> can't afford a place to live.