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Ricks Rant for January 26, 2010

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[klo00100]

landrecce, The Canadian health care system is not perfect, but it is exponentially better then the private system of the U.S.

[ugvug]

Quit your lieing landrecce the amount of GDP/GNP spent on health care is 11 1/2 percent. The US is 17 percent highest in the world.

RM is right here, and of course the announcement was strategically made on a Friday. landreece and Peter and Steve are shameless. Obsfuscate, deflect,manipulate and lie. We know what Steve and Jim are gonna do in the upcoming budget. Its been the plan from the beginning. Gut and privatize everything, including the Military and Healthcare.

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[TheRimDoctor]

@LivesForJihad All our healthcare requires is higher spending, to buy more equipment. Also a overhaul on the way doctors work. 6 month wait for an MRI scan? Well maybe if they didn't go on a 45 minute coffee break between scans it would be shorter.

[LivesForJihad]

@klo00100 About the same amount of time it takes for a fully insured person to get the surgery. The only difference is money and the ability to pay...which is totally independent of the failure of the system.

[klo00100]

@LivesForJihad

It may take a year for hip surgery in Canada, but how long will it take for an uninsured, or underinsured American to get the same surgery?

I will take our system over theirs any day.

[LivesForJihad]

@klo00100 Are you telling a joke?

A hip replacement surgery in Canada can take a whole year to start. I can go and have my hip replaced in the US tomorrow if I wanted to.

Canadian health Care sucks...I know because I AM Canadian.

[3baxcb]

@dwayners13 It's one of the most parasitic things this so-called government (hard to call it that since it's all under one strongman's thumb) has done in such photo-ops. But it's not surprising since none of those in government would ever face actual combat or answer why the Taliban are still resisting after 8 years of combat operations (three years longer than when Canada stood against the Third Reich).

[3baxcb]

@007nadineL I agree with the last statement you made. It is a disgrace to the memories of fallen soldiers that our Parliamentary democracy has become a government of one. In other countries, we call it a one-man state or one-party state and we all know how that turns out time and time again.

[dwayners13]

It's actions like this that should have been highlighed during the campaign as it demonstrates Harper's view & treatment of our troops. They staged a photo-op & funding announcement to show support for our young men & women, yet had no intention keeping the promise. While in opposition, he urged the gov't to send our troops to Iraq, in an effort to:1. improve relations with the US & 2. be awarded contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq. He wanted to trade our troop for approval & money from the US.

[007nadineL]

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[3baxcb]

I don't know about the babies or Canadian troops but this government's behaviour makes me want to throw up.