The Affordable Care Act

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I bet they're PISSED at the rollout. Wonder what the total costs will be.

Pete

You do realiize that the screwed up rollout was implemented by private inductry, and by a company theat the previous administration had put on the preferred list?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

There is hope yet.
Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives.
Could be attributed to Winston Churchill

Yes that was Winnie.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

PS: My view don't carry any weight .

Fixed it for you

[whell]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Canada's SinglePayer.

There are non so blind as those who will not see.

Do you need a cane? I guess health care can be pretty cheap when you can't get in to see your doc.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadi...501468?cmp=rss

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Do you need a cane? I guess health care can be pretty cheap when you can't get in to see your doc.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadi...501468?cmp=rss

From your article:

"People in the U.S. have quicker access to their family doctors, with 48 per cent of those polled saying they could get a same-day or next-day appointment, ranking second last among the 11 countries.

Germany was listed as first in how quickly residents saw their doctors, at 76 per cent, followed by New Zealand at 72 per cent."

It seems like 9 countries with their "socialized medicine" do better than we do (at half the cost). Why is it that you seem so satisfied with a system that's in 10th place in this measure, 16th in outcomes (I think - see Barbara's previous post), and dead last in terms of cost? You sure are easy to please while quick to criticize.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

Do you need a cane? I guess health care can be pretty cheap when you can't get in to see your doc.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadi...501468?cmp=rss

Guess you missed the post about our son, he was hospitalized immediatelt and saw his cardiologist the next day. You go by the media I go by actual experience of family members, and I have family all across Canada. So I am not terribly interested in what the Cosmic Butterfly Corporation says.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Guess you missed the post about our son, he was hospitalized immediatelt and saw his cardiologist the next day. You go by the media I go by actual experience of family members, and I have family all across Canada. So I am not terribly interested in what the Cosmic Butterfly Corporation says.

My cousin moved from Pennsylvania to Kingston, Ontario about 15 years ago when he married a lovely Canadian lass from there. He says that the only thing that would keep him from even considering a move back to the states was our health care system.

[Rajoo]

If only Obama and the Democrats had named ACA "American Healthcare Act", chances are it would not have been nicknamed Obamacare.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

My cousin moved from Pennsylvania to Kingston, Ontario about 15 years ago when he married a lovely Canadian lass from there. He says that the only thing that would keep him from even considering a move back to the states was our health care system.

Similar situation, I met a lovely American Lady from Columbia Maryland in the Feb 11-12 1983 east coast blizzard. After spending the night in a hotel lobby protecting her we corresponded and phoned each other. My salary though excellent would not run two households so I took early retirement, that supported my ex quite nicely. Once the word was out that I was available the first offer came from, Northern VA. Seeing as how we desperately wanted to be together I took it along with the offered visa, so here I am. That was toward the end of St. Ronnie's reign and things did look better back then.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

If only Obama and the Democrats had named ACA "American Healthcare Act", chances are it would not have been nicknamed Obamacare.

Possibly but the GOP would have still been intransigent.