Replying to a message from Bjoern Forsstroem 2:203/614.61 to Steven Horn,

About Insurance, On Tue Mar 23 2004

 SH> Public insurance is state insurance.  Private insurance is insurance
 SH> available through private companies.

BF> Oh, didn't know you had state insurances.
BF> I have never heard of that before. And you call us a socialist
BF> country.  :-) 

Not administered by the Federal Government, this is a Provincial
jurisdiction, there are to date 3 provinces that have public insurance, the
rest are private.  The provinces in order of putting public insurance in
place, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia.  I think there is
rumblings of some of the remaining provinces following suit after the
insurance industry boasting a 687 billion dollar profit and policy
increases of 700 percent.  This is only the Canadian figures.  As reported
by our public broadcaster CBC.

Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

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