When Our Neighbors Wish Us Dead or Broke, We're in Trouble with More Than Our Health Care System

[riverbendviewgal]

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Makes me feel so fortunate to live in Canada. I have experienced personally my family getting the best health care, with no denying or waiting. Imagine having a husband and son diagnosed two months apart with cancer. Husband had non - Hodgkins lymphoma and son has glioblastma multiform brain tumour. Son had same tumour as Senator Ted Kennedy and I looked up the senator's treatments. My son had the same as Kennedy. There was no medical bills. Just had to pay for parking at the hospital.
I had a detached retina two years ago. Went to my optometrist, not knowing why my eye sight was seeing only half on one eye. He sent me same day to an eye surgeon and I got laser surgery that same evening. I had to drive two hours to see surgeon as I live in a rural northern Ontario community. The health care insurance (OHIP) gives a reimbursement for my gasoline usage.

I probably pay more taxes than Americans through income tax, sales tax and gasoline tax but I do not resent it at all. My income tax percentage was 30 percent. I can live with that. I have a higher income than many seniors who would pay minimal tax. Ontario seniors pay $100 annually for their prescription drugs, after that they are free. Some pharmacies charge a small dispensing fee and some don't charge any fee.

Health care is not for profit here. I hope someday you all get it.

I have a niece in the states who is a mom of 2 little girls who works well paying job with the IMC. She is very against universal/one payer health care in the USA. She says why should she pay for health care. Her dad, my brother, says anyone with no health care can go to the emergency room. They are RW teabaggers, which astounding to me since the know what my son and husband went through.

They hate Obama as well. I believe it is because he is black.