Jason Hayes wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 7:14:33 pm Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
>> +1.  For Michale Moore, you could tell he was holding back to try
>> being "fair and balanced".  Health care in the USA is a joke compared
>> to the UK.  You don't believe it?  Watch the movie and ask any of your
>> friends who have had care in both places...
> 
> Or you can ask me. I endured the Canadian health care system for over 30 
> years. To clear things up, it's not the panacea you appear to think it is. 
> The US health care system -- expensive as it may be -- is light years ahead 
> of the Canadian and British systems.
> 
> A few quick examples from my own life experience.
<snip>
> 
> Regarding your first assertion, Michael Moore doesn't have the first clue what 
> life is like under socialized health care and you don't see him traveling to 
> Cuba for his check ups and surgery, do you?
> 
> The simple truth is that people are dying on wait lists in Canada, Great 
> Britain, and France. Worse, they're made to wait like that after having paid 
> 50%+ taxes for their "free" health care.
> 
> Don't fall for it. The grass is not greener on the other side of that fence.
> 

I agree with you guys. Socialism simply does not work, regardless of how
much we might want it to.
http://www.mises.org/books/socialism/contents.aspx
When will we learn?

P.S. I wonder how this topic deviated?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
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