17 Replies to ““Free” Healthcare”

  1. Obviously Canadians don’t have enough government health care. There is still private care…taking away from Government care. Plus entire private pharmacies, companies, medical device makers. All should be captured a folded in for the greater good.
    Then there are the Americans. Canadians that pay for American care are stealing dollars needed by the Canadian Government. This should not be allowed.

    Only if we try this time real government care can we succeed.

    /s

  2. If we didn’t have socialized health care I could have paid cash for the medical care my family has received in the past year and have 16,000 dollars left over. I could have either saved some money to pay for future medical bills or maybe bought an insurance policy to protect me in case of an accident or illness.

  3. Many people only buy insurance when they are forced to do so. In Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia, the provincial governments require government insurance when you register your vehicle. You must buy property insurance when you have a mortgage on said property.
    In my life, I have had numerous friends/people who never buy renter’s insurance or other types of insurance (I am on the fence about life insurance) and like to “whistle past the graveyard”. I am sure that they would do the same with health insurance.
    And I say this from being a self-employed person of over 30 years who did not have a company dental plan until my last 2 jobs (starting in 2008). Yet I managed to take care of my teeth and my daughter’s teeth by saving and planning for dental visits.

    1. I don’t believe in insurance. I’m prepared to take the risk. The insurance company is betting something bad isn’t going to happen and you’re betting it is. If the insurance company is making a profit it means you are paying them more than they are paying you. Bank and invest the money yourself and have cash on hand if you need it.

      The bank wanted me to get life insurance on my mortgage, but they let me get a term life insurance policy instead. In the event of my untimely demise my estate would have had the cash to pay of the remaining balance on the mortgage, and as the outstanding balance gets less it would cost a smaller chunk of the insurance payout. A way better deal than mortgage insurance.

      After our oldest was born my wife and I took out twenty year term policies which would be sufficient to see the survivor deal with the loss and the children get educated. The kids are grown now and we have enough assets that if one of us dies the other won’t be broke.

      1. I did the same thing for about 30 years. When my father got me set up with a life insurance policy, I was a university undergrad in my late teens. Back then, there was still the possibility of there being a Mrs. BADR and some BADR brats.

        Since that didn’t happen, I asked myself why I was still spending the money on an annual premium. My parents were initially named as beneficiaries and it stayed that way. By the end, they certainly didn’t need the money, so I decided not to renew it.

  4. And anything “planned” by the government is costly and of poor quality, including OHIP (or similar in other provinces).

  5. Well … Canadians can always travel to the sunny island of Cuba to obtain the … “worlds best medical care on the planet” … and the winters there are so nice

    1. That’s if the oil tanks haven’t blown up suppling the fuel to run the Islands generators.
      Hard to do surgery by candlelight.

  6. About thirty years ago I had to take my wife to Scott and White in Temple Texas. They have a big lot set up for RV parking. I walked around out there and the number of RVs with Canadian tags was surprising. They had to rent the RV, put the gas in it,and deal with the medical bills, and they Chose all of that over that wonderful free system at home, which they were supporting anyway. Speaks volumes about the value of that socialist system.
    I know, some of them owned the rv.

  7. The Tooth Fairy will apply a bit of freezing to your bank account if you oppose the new dental plan.

  8. And if you listen carefully, you can hear this cry from 90% of the electorate:

    “Whaddayamean it costs me????”

  9. While I was working for someone else, my employers added in extended medical coverage. I paid for it through paycheque deductions.

    I continued that after I quit my job at Armpit College, but that was stopped by the company when I turned 65. That’s when I added up the overall cost for continuing my coverage.

    I usually used that service for my dental expenses, but, as it turned out, the full cost of what was done on my teeth still was less than paying those periodic premiums. I told Blue Cross, “Fuhgeddaboudit” and have been paying full fare ever since.

  10. “Pipe down and get in line.”

    The other waiting line – for morticians – is still short. Which illustrates the difference between the free market and a system run by government.

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