> Replying to a message of Steven Horn to JIM WELLER:

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

>> I read the American posts and I not only get a headache but
>> get nausea to boot.

> Why?  If you assume - usually correctly - that the media and the politicians
>are lying out their collective *sses whatever they say shouldn't bother you at
>all.  In point of fact, people in this country are not dying in the streets fo
>lack of health care - drive-by shootings, hypothermia, starvation, yes, but no
> for lack of health care.

You obviously don't know how some people live in this country, Bob.. My
daughter has no insurance for herself, her 3 sons or her husband. If
something hits them beyond their 'day-to-day' expenses, they are SUNK.  My
son has Cobra coverage right now but that's only be we are paying for it..
(the company he worked for just had no work for him so they had to let him
go). How long we'll be able to do that is unknown.. we're hoping even
though Ron was just diagnosed with a good one, that he'll be able to work
(looks like he will now, but who knows).

Be real.. this country needs an overhaul.. Our own coverage is 80%.. but
that meant for instance that I had to pay over $2000.00 for a week long
hospital stay 2 years ago.. and that f'n hurt.

Take care,
Janis

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