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  • @ENTERRAPTURE20 Meh.

  • yeah he's rich but atleast he's sincerly trying to find us alternative energy/fuels.

  • Stewart's brother is a big-wig on Wall St.

  • fuck jon stewart for kissing this criminal's ass.

  • T.Boone pickens ...one of the biggest enemies of the U.S.'s well being

  • EAT THE RICH!

  • I recall this interview. I didn't believe the bastard.

  • I don't need leadership, T boone, I need you and your fuck nut friends to get out of my fucking way.

    If Boone is some genius why hasn't he heard of cellulosic ethanol?

  • Anyone with a billion dollars, ten million for that matter, screwed a lot of folks to get at it. I don't care if you cure cancer, you ain't worth a billion so go fudge yourself. Oprah too for that matter.

  • @homerco213 It is a Bitch, being jealous. I am a Democrat and even I am happy that people can become Billiionaires.

  • So uh, how did that whole windmill thing workout for yah T Bone? That's what I thought.

  • In my country we have free healthcare, free schools, the tuition is an estimated 150$ each semester at university(and nothing else) we pay an average 36% tax with an additional 4-8% if your anual income surpasses circa 70k.

    Political campaigns are NOT allowed donations, and does not need funding because we have no "real" campaigns (not even tv ads). If you are a republican reading this you might think I live in communist China or that we are socialist.

    I live in Norway. Where we have a democracy

  • @alkebest1 Yes, but are you now following Sharia law due to Muslim influences in your country?

    You can have your "democracy", as those historically have failed...

    The U.S. was set up as a Democratically Limited REPUBLIC, and I fear that we have allowed too much of our Constitution to be bastardized to save that for future generations...

  • @PJS50 I live in the UK and even though we have a large population of Muslims we don't have shariah law. If u are now going to come back with shariah law courts and shariah compliant bank accounts, then they are only shariah laws for people who want to follow them, and they will follow shariah laws whether u have a structure in place or not, there are no penalties for not following shariah law in these countries.

  • @PJS50

    What does Sharia law have to do with a democracy?

    Are there any examples of sharia law being implemented in a democracy? (Except in countries where the majority of the population are following Islam)

    This is definitly not happening in my country to answer your question, and I doubt it is happening in yours either. And just to underline a point, if the majority in your country want to implement Sharia law then they damn well should. That is what a democracy means! The people rule.

  • @alkebest1 The fact that you have Sharia courts and bank accounts is very telling..

    If not protected, a "Democracy" can turn into a "mob-rule" type of society. As was the case with other historical "democracies" who fell from the face of the earth, so sounds to be the way of the future for many of the Scandinavian counties due to the Muslim influence... I hope I am wrong with that assessment, but I don't think I am too far off... I wish you the best of luck with that...

  • @PJS50 Nope, sorry. I'm afraid you make a salient point. I wish you were wrong too but you ain't.

  • @PJS50 A most interesting premise "so sounds to be the way of the future for many of the Scandinavian counties due to the Muslim influence... ", except these very secular societies are safer than the USA/UK for violence and crime. Taking Finland as an example, the Romany gypsies are a larger proportion than Islamists at 0.1% !! Sorry, your assessment is based on what ? You've been told they have a problem perhaps ?

  • Maybe instead of going after Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 maybe we should have said to our selfs, Gee Bin Laden is right. We have been cunts about oil. Then invested all the money the wars have costs on solar panels for every household in the U.S. Hindsight is a bitch.

  • Natural gas? He must be talking about 'fracking shale gas'. Winning it, is a disaster for your drinking water.. Google it!

  • He's in the wrong place. He believes he's about to go on with "John Stoort".

  • Jon supporting Pickens? Oh wow! Pickens is a corp. monster. He has raided so many companies and will stop at nothing to make a buck.

  • @freedomwv that's cuz jon is working for the man but pretends to be a man of the ppl.

  • what happened to you picken? Where have you gone?

  • LOL

  • gotta love jon stewart!

  • Isn't this T Boone the guy who wants to privatize water resources in the US, Texas to be more accurate.

  • I love the random dog on the floor.

  • WE DONT WANT LEADERSHIP

    WE WANT FREEDOM

  • Nice Bucky shirt.... GO BADGERS!

  • T Boone Pickens is a billionaire oil baron who is now sucking the largest water aquifer in the US dry as we speak. He is pumping it from access within his own property and selling back to us in bottles. Pure profit. Next thing he'll do is sell our air back to us. He may seem altruistic but beware of the wolf.....

  • @unstableminded

    Born and raised right over that aquifer...He once paid all his employees left in the Texas Panhandle hazard pay for having to stay and work there...It's nothing more than a vindictive attempt at pay back from an old rich fuck bent on teaching the peasants one last lesson...Hope he shits and dies SOON...

  • There is more than enough wind farm of energy 17 miles away from where I live but when lights go out here, the wind farm doesn't help us at all. ! Where is all that energy going?

  • @lencho234 what a moron....

  • I feel uncomfortable with t boone pickens. I think he worries more about making money and advancing technologies he's invested in than actually solving a problem in America.

  • If you want to solve the energy problem than invent a machine that can convert lies in to energy & than we can use FOX news as a power supplie I am shore that one day of FOX news could power a spaceship to the next solar system

  • Bless his heart, I'm sure he tried.

    

  • Right..in about 3months..1st 100 days..more like 3yrs..still, 'no fukin way." Solar panels are sinfully overpriced and health food is near illegal! BArely tested bovine growth hormones descretely added to our childrens milk and flouride in our water supply is fine..fracking for a wasted emmission byproduct of the pipeline it fuels is considered?

  • The arrest of Naomi Klien and others surrounding the white house..and people committed to put their bodies on the line if Obama okays the Canada to Texas pipeline (vote postponed til after election...hmmm).

  • Seems we need to do it ourselves..because we want it done right. Thank you to all the protestors..I appreciate your sacrifice on my family's behalf. God Speed.

  • Thumbs up if you saw the dog too and thought "that is the smartest dog ever, i should go lay down too."

  • LOL What a fail the energy policies have been so far

    Good job government, keep intervening.

  • @Faultline54 You seem to have completely missed my point... I don't want to argue with you or respond to your rhetorical comments.

  • @cactoosjack Wanna trade healthcare systems? Cuz Ill gladly take that one.

    Sorry theres something I find fundamentally wrong I find with corporations controlling institutions that are so vital to people. They make money off keeping you sick and denying you coverage. Thats fucked. The government should run certain things. Prisons, for example, should never be run by private corporations

  • @zzyzx0788 I have bad news for you, prisons are actually contracted to many private security organizations :( food, the guards, the outreach programs all gov't subsidized private corps. :( Capitalism it seems knows no bounds, except for those that we are seeing now, in other words, the fact that greed and corruption basically fuck it up.

  • @IamZren89 Oh, great..

  • @zzyzx0788 Should the government distribute food as well? How about cars? Oil and Gas?. Health care isn't a funding promise from someone. It is a good and service subject to the laws of economics. Things like prices relay key information to providers. The difference between the private sector and the government isn't the morality of the people but the rules they operate under. This government can't lower prices, it can just conceal the real price. Also medicare denies more people.

  • @zzyzx0788 the government does run things, indirectly, by allowing our corporations to do this shit

  • @zzyzx0788 2 things, 1) none of this is free and we are already having SEVERE money problems 2) life isn't fair. i agree prisons shouldnt be privatized cause it seems like that could easily lead down a bad path. but we cannot pay for socialized healthcare, and taxing over 50% to help pay for people to get preventative healthcare,(cause immediate healthcare is always provided in the ER, u don't need insurance/ability to pay to get a broken bone fixed) etc, will start hurting my family.

  • @thedrunkfr0g no you just get a nasty bill in the mail 3 weeks later, you don't understand how private insurance works. what you have essentially said is; "i don't want people to be covered under a single-payer healthcare system, because that might affect my ability to be prioritized over the currently less fortunate" plus our taxes won't go up that much, and considering how much government money goes to subsidizing private insurance groups. the bottom line is health not money.

  • @tseng13 I'm all for insurance reform, half of it is just a load of bullshit. but it's too much of a risked, and the cost will only go up over time. to sustain a system like this would be too difficult for us. we already are paying more for social security than defense, and thatll just increase with more people living longer and inflation. we can't even handle our current social programs and healthcare is HUGE, too big for us now. once our economy is stable is the time to talk about this. 

  • Chesapeake has delayed or refused to complete other purchases in that region as well, the lawsuit states.

    “Chesapeake has convinced numerous leasehold owners in Michigan to sell leases to Chesapeake instead of other prospective purchasers, and then manufactured alleged title defects or other alleged justification not to close the agreements after discovering negative information concerning the zones within the Collingwood range,” according to the lawsuit

  • Someone take down T Boone check out how clean natural gas really is defraking it's not so clean GASLAND

  • i think we can all agree jon stewert is a good ass guy

  • @TheShawnyoda even as much as Liberal Jon maybe, I don't think he goes that way.

  • @WesOrion what way? cus i was referring to him being a straight up cool person to talk and hang with... i just get that vibe from him.... like i get the vibe bill oriely is a true asshole

  • @TheShawnyoda Check him out on J. Venturas conspiracy theory

  • @huntingtonbeachify chech who out? and that show is bullshit if the illumianti is real and all that other bullshit you think the illumianti will allow that show to be on?

  • @TheShawnyoda one of the only honest ones out there.. it sux he doesnt want to really be seen political.. he would make a perfect president

  • @TheShawnyoda discusting scum ass guy u mean

  • @TheWhyareyouracist no im pretty sure i got it right buddy

  • @TheShawnyoda nop

  • @TheWhyareyouracist dude im a man i dont argue over the internet but im sure you watch fox news and that reflects on the comments you make... i watch a hilarius comedian and im here to watch him backstage so if you dont mind please fuck off... as a mater a fack you dont have a choice but to fuck off cus i dont respond to dumbass like you and trust me there all over youtube trollen 24/7

  • @TheShawnyoda dude ur a douchbag of the internet and on the internet suck or my big salty balls u fake ass old douchbag if u like him than stay with him u fag i dont so fuck him and yeah fuck u hahahah discusting DOUCHBAG YOUTUBE IS FULL OF YOU DOUCHBAGS

  • @TheWhyareyouracist "stay with him u fag" im on one his fucking videos u retart if you dont like him go on bill oreilys videos and bitch about obama ... and i can read you dont have to capitalize "douchbag" nomatter how big it is i couldnt care less what some says loser who has a youtube account says... and ur right "discusting DOUCHBAG YOUTUBE IS FULL OF YOU DOUCHBAGS" thats true can you beive that if your a fan of someone that a douchhater will say "discusting sacum as guy"

  • @TheShawnyoda kid educate ur self we are all on hes videos for 1 reason to shit on him or to suck him so what do u do u FUCKING RETARD HAHAHAHA DOUCHBAG

  • @TheShawnyoda hahaha ur the douchbag hahahahahahaha YOUTUBE IF FULL OF RETARDED DOUCHBAGS LIKE U PUSSY U NEED A PUSSY IN UR LIFE U SCUM DOUCHBAG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT A DOUCHBAGG

  • @TheShawnyoda i dont give a shit a bout media hahahahah i dont watch ur stupid ass americans lame ass shows hahah AM CANADIAN AND PROUD TO BE U DOUCHBAG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAH

  • @TheWhyareyouracist ohh ur canadian that explains alot thanks for sharing i though u were just some trash loser in his moms basement but ur just a harmless canadian... aye

  • @TheShawnyoda ? and where is ur poit i would stil crush you u douchbag

  • @TheWhyareyouracist im sooooo scared

  • @TheShawnyoda and still a litle douchbag

  • @TheWhyareyouracist ur pathetic ur ass in on youtube everyday being another bitch behind a computher

  • @TheShawnyoda ur just a nother douchbag from usa tryin to make all the americans belive that ur right well dude ur a douchbag still u need to wake up because u are acting like a sheep u douch

  • @TheWhyareyouracist we are cus we run the world if it wasnt for america you guys would be occupied buy someone with a set of balls instead of a bunch of bitch ass canidians

  • @TheShawnyoda hhahaha u really are stupid kid hahahahahahahahah oh my god u cant eaven run ur own country dude u wonna fuck up someones else the funny part u will wake up and u will not answer oh m f god u are so dumb and un educated in this beautiful world u stuid douchbag no one can come here in canada and mess with us cause we have 60% of immigrants so fuck u if ur country is left behind hahahahahahhahahahahahaha

  • @TheWhyareyouracist why are you typing in "hahahahahahahaha" so much when your not really laughing its kinda weird... but i live in the best country in the world and i have a million better things to do then argue with some miserable canadian

  • @TheShawnyoda Aaaaahhh hahahahahahahah...you think you live in the best country in the world...hahahahahahahah, you're funny.

  • @TheShawnyoda UR A DOUCHFAG HAHAHAHAHA

  • @TheWhyareyouracist saying the same thing over and over again dosnt make it true or make me care dumbshit

  • so much reading in everysingle comment hahahaha

  • @cactoosjack that same stuff happens here in the states dude. I broke my ankle once, but the doctors took a week to finally diagnose it and actually put a cast on me. The whole time I was just told to keep my weight off of it and just walk on it slowly, when I should have had a cast on it. Doctor's fuck up everywhere. It's not unique to Canada. And also, drugs cost up to four times more here compared to what Canadians pay. It's a fact, so your complaint about drug costs is a quarter of ours.

  • What was up with the dog?

  • durrrrr durrrrrrrrrrr durrrrrrrr my name is america durrr durr i need an alternate energy source DUR!!!!!

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  • @Loginsuccessfully You are either a troll or an idiot. I salute you all the same.

  • @MrMenzies Could you please provide an example? Otherwise your comments eem worthless and ignorant.

  • @Loginsuccessfully Damnit it troll! I refuse to bite. You may fool some people but I refuse to believe that your point of view exists.

  • @MrMenzies Are you a child? Don't use silly metaphors that only a child would use. Speak like a man, and if you want to say something like one then say something educated. Otherwise just shut the hell up. This is a political discussion so either state a point or a rebuttal.

  • Hi from capitalist USA! I have just gotten back from my annual check up. I had a 2 minute wait in the lobby, & a 3 minute wait in the actual check-up room. My doctor came from Stanford's medical program and said that he will leave the industry if Obamacare is not repealed. I live in the liberal bay area and pay $40/month for health insurance. I am 100% satisfied!

    This is why America's healthcare system ranks #1 in shortest wait times, most advanced technologies, & highest customer satisfaction.

  • @retownsend

    I hope your daughter gets very sick and she has to go to the free clinic.

  • @uNiTCoNDoR Typical dumb-ass response. Can't attack my facts so you make some smart-ass comment. You're not worth anyones time

  • @retownsend

    Okay, I will attack your facts.

    The real problem with the american healthcare system is the excessive overhead. Insurance companies and the healthcare providers cooperate. By making healthcare very expensive, only with an insurance policy can you pay. Insurance companies don't mind paying that much because of the garaunteed client base. You see? its the same thing that Truman's anti trust laws hoped to prevent. Don't be scared of the future.

  • @uNiTCoNDoR No. The problem is that the government stipulates that certain things must be covered and prevents insurance companies from transcending state boundaries. Look at Walmart. Walmart is cheap - everyone can afford it. They sell hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for less money than a bag of popcorn costs at a movie theater. But if Walmart could only exist in California, they would have to charge MUCH more. The bigger the base, the cheaper the goods. Just like when you buy in bulk.

  • @retownsend "This is why America's healthcare system ranks #1 in shortest wait times".. The reason why you (if it's a fact) rank #1 in shortest wait times is because you rank your own citizens. Of course the line is shorter if 40% of your population isn't even in the line. Here in "communist" europe money isn't supposed to be the ticket to get in front of everyone else. It should basically be first in, first served. Everyone should have equal right medical care.

  • @dahDougieBoy No, fool. By the largest estimates, America has 47 million people living without healthcare insurance. 47/310 = 15%.

    If we analyze that number.. 12-15 million in that number are illegal aliens who deserve no right to free healthcare, as they pay no income taxes. 15 million of those people are between 18-35 and probably choose not to purchase healthcare insurance because they are fit and healthy. 17 million make over $75,000 a year and could afford to pay. So that leaves 5 million.

  • @retownsend so wait times are more important than infant mortality? Or more important than having a higher life expectancy? You know as a country we rank 37th over all in terms of healthcare quality. The other 36 are nationally ran healthcare systems. Pull your egotistical head out of your giant American ass. And your doctor actually said he would leave the industry? They must really love money then and not the work they're doing. And what profession would they go into that could pay this good??

  • Hi... nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it, whether it be through fiat currency or taxes, someone is paying for something.

  • @alexvlk Why not privatize police too ? Being robbed ? Got police insurance ? No? Ok, we'll just walk on by.. cya. To pay a couple of more percent in taxes to take care of my fellow countrymen is something I don't have any problem with. Next time it may be me or someone in my family.

  • @dahDougieBoy my point is still valid. It's not free like everyone says. I wouldn't say don't have a universal health care law, just that it still costs money.

  • @dahDougieBoy

    very socially concious.

  • @dahDougieBoy Fully agree with you. We have private prisons, and no one I know would even consider their existence in a moral way, but they do. To make money off of people's health is unethical

  • Greetings from the communist-phobic USA! I have no healthcare. My country just passed a healthcare reform law that did little to improve the system...

    ...what does this have to do with the Pickens Plan? Think this guy is for real, or is the strong push for wind a veiled attempt to boost the natural gas industry, of which all of the supermajors (ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips and Total) are very heavily invested?

    Not saying my own opinion is set. Purely curious.

  • @cactoosjack

    If you have to go to a doctor and wait for 3 hours, 4 times around, then you should probably get a new doctor. I make appointments, I show up on time, I see my doctor within a few minutes.

  • really reminds of The Larry Sanders show, just seeing behind the scenes i guess...

  • i love how the dog doesnt give a fuck, just lays in the hallway

  • @linzzyy I'm Canadian too and our healthcare system seems great doesn't it, until you actually get sick and have to wait over a year for an MRI. The Canadian health care sytem is great if you are healthy but if you are sick prey that you have enough money to go to the states and get proper healthcare.

  • @mcshotgun96 Agreed you do have to wait as everyone goes for fooking hangnails to the hospital b/c it's free. But I'd much rather wait then stand around and die outside unable to afford it. Also priority eleviates the wait. If it's urgent you wont be waiting. I've had 4 spontaneous pneumothorax's (collapsed lung) i also got the surgery to fix it... free... with little wait... I can't imagine the debt my family would be in had I lived anywhere else in the world.

  • How does one country have so many ignorant, loud, illiterate, hateful and generally intolerant people constantly whining?????? It's seriously a mystery to the rest of the human race.

  • getting natural gas is done by a system called hydraulic fracking. however when they drill so deep down and cause these explosions to release the gas, it poisons peoples drinking wells. even cases of peoples' water faucets being lit on fire. check out the trailer for GasLand on youtube.

  • Hello from USA !!! where people have right to not pay for the things they dont want

  • But if you want a car in the USA... you have to pay for something you may not want! Gay.

    You also can't walk around with your tits out or set up a lemonade stand without a permit :/.

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  • @JohnAntonyFortune Where do I sign to NOT PAY FOR THIS WAR? Don't be ignorant, your tax money pays for things you aren't even aware of, regardless if you want/use them or not. Examples: A maintained sewer system even if you own a septic tank, schools even if no one in your family attends (which judging by the way the people in this country act seems certain), fire departments, police departments, post offices, and so on. I know there are programs you don't want and your tax dollars pay for.

  • Greetings from Republican Butt-fuck Alabama! We get screwed!

  • @7684928719823983 its the democrats fault

  • Bonjour y'all from communist France! :D

  • @jacob091181 and now we are all fucked since osama is in office

  • @jacob091181 they take 4% from me where in hell do you live that takes 15-20%? Fucking California?

  • @Ferg1x ONLY 4%? I'm sorry, but where the fuck do YOU live? I gotta get over to your state in a hurry.

  • @PublicEnemy04 Georgia dude. 

  • You do know that the taxes are progressive, right?

  • @MoaiMaea i have never of anyone's go as low as 4%.

  • Well, perhaps he’s on relief.

  • I think you would like the idea of a basic income (the version with a flat tax and a negative income tax). Carry on the revolution, brother.

  • @jacob091181 Arrange some money go to India and get yourself treated with fraction of money, I feel for you buddy.

  • @jacob091181 Mexico has good doctors if you know where to look

  • @jacob091181 we pay BIG TAXES in france but when my BROTHER got sick for 30 days in The hospital He only payd 70$ LoL .

  • @jacob091181

    My god, man . Why not leaving to live in Kanada,mate? :/

  • Statistics show that the U.S. pays twice as much for healthcare and has the worst rates of infant mortality and we are #41 in the world for life expectancy...guess how many of those countries that live longer have government run healthcare!!!

  • @samala5793 I'll start by saying that I agree that everybody should have healthcare available. But, the statistics are somewhat skewed because some people don't have access to it. If you look at people who are actually insured, the US system actually provides better care than any other country, mainly because we put so much money into it. The key is to keep the quality as high as it is currently, and ensure that it applies to everybody, not just those who can afford it.

  • @josh2ee I will say that people not having access to healthcare is one of the main reasons I supported this bill. I know many people who wait until things are truly horrible because they hope whatever it is will go away and then they won't have to pay $20 for a tylenol and go into bankruptcy trying to get back to healthy. I do acknowledge your point though.

  • This billionaire, T-boon Pickens, wants you and I to subsidize his wind and solar business with our tax money so he can make even more money and you and I can have less. Thanks Jon Stewart for endorsing this idiot and showing us the way! We can all put wind turbines on our bicycles and peddle to work in the rain while you and T-Boon are driven to work in your limos! LOL what an idiot!

  • @MrFreeLibertarian I was thinking the same thing. He wouldn't be endorsing this unless he knew he was gonna get stinkin' rich this way. lol.

  • Is this guy running for President or what? I'd follow him out the building.

  • A dollar is more important to them than even the life of one innocent baby. And THAT's the bottom line. So stop kidding yourselves and get real. Because before you Americans wake up to that fact, more and more babies will continue to die. These people are thinking long into the future for their next generations, and collecting for them.

  • Remember this golden rule. "He who has all the gold, makes all the rules." And at the rate the human population is exploding, the natural resources are getting used up faster. So, that's the bottom line on your Health Care problem. What you REALLY need is an Honest Politician, that doesn't care about their bottoms lines and, has the guts to fight them.

  • @Phasers1a agreed, only such politicians dont exist anymore, and if they do, they dont get very far, sadly

  • But, you're more likely to get hit by a soviet satellite, than find an honest politician, especially one with Real Balls to do what's right. Let's see if Obama will keep his promise to you Americans when he said he will fix it and, will be the last president to fight for it.

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  • Just wait until President Obama starts trying push a new energy policy. If the healthcare debates were any indication then it's gonna get NASTY.

  • IF ONLY I HAD JON STEWARTS HAIR!!!!

  • free health care paid for by my mc donalds paycheck for people that dont take showers but when they get skin diseases they get free treatment in hospitals.... geesh...

  • Hello from communist Sweden hahaha It's sooo wrong to have free healthcare and take care of your own citizens... yez...

  • greetings from socialist canada! I will be going for my annual check up soon with out any worry of how to pay for it. we elect a government to provide basic human rights, the right to affordable health care is a pretty basic right.

  • I hope you don't need serious spinal surgery anytime soon. Good luck though if you do get brain cancer, they just might be able to get you in for a CAT scan within 15 months of diagnosis.

  • well, when i started having seizures a few years ago it took about 24 hours to get the MRI & CAT scans done.... i was not expected to pay for them either

  • Well cool, then explain to me why there are so many medical centers in northern US states like Washington and Illinois and New York that cater to so many Canadians coming down to get help, because it's going to take over a year to get a surgery that would vastly improve their life? You are either got lucky, or you're lying to prove a point. In any case, if your system was so great, those centers I'm talking about would be dead in the water from lack of business.

  • By the way, don't mistake my criticism of Canada's system for praise of the US system. My country desperately needs reform, but I'm pretty convinced socializing it is not the way to go. I've lived in a country with socialized health care, and had to suffer through a flu for 9 days with only OTC drugs because the NHS in London could only get me in April. It was December when I got sick. And the regular flu virus kills close to .5 million people a year. I'd say that's pretty serious.

  • Fair enough & I am not saying that our system is perfect either, far from it. My experiences to date have been fast & efficient. As for socialized medicine not being right for the US... I have heard this many times, but no one can come up with a viable alternative. What exactly isn't "right" about it? Is it just the word socialized? Just an FYI, there isn't a "Canadian" system, every province is different.

    Hope you have a nice Christmas.

  • I would say compare to some of the European countries rather then Canada. Their systems are much more socialized. If you look at the quality of care in those countries it is extremely high. So are their taxes. That is ultimately the trade off, no matter how people try to spin it - government run health care costs money. The most difficult part of reform for you guys is that much of your government is lobbied by Pharmaceutical Companies and so is much of the public media.

  • meh I got hit by a car a few years back and because we have the NHS I didn't have to pay for the surgery, when I was in San Diego my room mate said his brother had fallen down the stairs and smashed his head and is still paying for it 5 years on... that scared the crap out of me, I could become bankrupt and in huge debt because I fell down the stairs?

  • Bravo and well said Linzzyy. We need that here in the US. The people that dont want Socialized health care, dont know why they dont want it!!!!

    But we need it

    Don cherry for president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • fuck off canuk nobody cares about your country.