JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to THEODORE NIKODEM at 20:36 on 12 Jan 2010:

 JW> I'm getting a headache. It's all too complicated. In Canada the
 JW> employer remits 1.95% of his total payroll, I get a health card, I
 JW> show it, I don't get a bill. Period. I pay for my own drugs and
 JW> dental care until I'm 60 and then they get covered too. Nice and
 JW> simple.


Jim,

I read the American posts and I not only get a headache but get nausea to
boot.  Like you, I have a health care card which has included pharmacare
for some years now and my group health and dental plans covered 80% of my
dental and drug costs before pharmacare clicked in.

I spent six weeks in hospital last summer recovering from a rare
neurological disease; my treatment included spinal taps, cat scans, an EEG
and MRI and flyouts for three neurological consults in Vancouver.  All I
paid was $4 and change for a prescription which pharmacare did not cover
and up front charge for my last consult which I recovered.

Simple, sane, and no headache or nausea.
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator emeritus, ALASKA_CHAT 
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