Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >Bonjour, > > Walker, Walker, please... > > If your american capitalist system is so great and wonderful, please >explain why older United States citizens are presently coming to Canada, >litterally by the trainload, to purchase medications they cannot afford (at >a reasonable cost) in their own country. Hmmm, after all maybe your country >considers the health of it s citizens a luxury to be purchased...and too bad >if you don t have enough greenbacks! > > Marc has done a pretty decent job of answering you. If one can save money, why not? Perhaps you'll tell us why Canadians flock to the US to get operations and other medical treatment that your fine socialist medical system can't provide? Much like when I was in England, it's because everything is backlogged for months or even years. Health isn't a luxury in the US. It IS, however, expected that people will provide their own health coverage. Like Marc, I'm a 24+ year US Vet and partially disabled. I'm on what's termed "Tri-Care Prime" and my medications come from the local Air Force Base pharmacy at no cost. My coverage costs me $460 annually and was promised originally at NO COST for life. Governments will lie to you. One advantage I have is being able to go on "Tri-Care For Life" rather than Medicare & Medicade. If TCFL doesn't cover a particular case totally, Medicare picks up the remainder.... at least as I understand it now. I'll find out in a few years. > The view you expressed regarding the US and it s involvment in world >history is both one sided and plain inaccurate on many accounts. Why don t >you tell us about, let s say, 35 dictators the US have been involved with >over the years, starting with Pinochet, Batista, Banzer, Somoza, Videla, >Cordova, Stroesser, Suharto and all the others? > > I don't know if you're old enough to recall the Cold War clearly or not but Communism was not confinded to the USSR and Red China. Both nations were actively persuing world domination and Communist governments was one way to achieve that goal. Sure, the US did everything they could to ensure US and Allied-friendly governments were in power whenever possible and it was done to keep the Free World free. That would happen to include Canada. I don't think you can imagine what life up your way would be today had the Communists triumphed. But, you can ask those who were behind the Iron Curtain or in N. Korea or other Communist-ruled countries. I personally knew families who escaped from Hungary in the 1956 uprising. Talking with them would expose you to very different viewpoints. Ever wonder why the borders of the Eastern Bloc nations were fenced and guarded? It wasn't to keep people out. It also wasn't the US that murdered roughly 20,000,000 of our own citizens. I believe that was Stalin's body count. Great guy, Uncle Joe. > Of course the United States has done wonderful things for freedom >and...democracy over the years, but to better understand the present >political international situation, one must also recognize the many many >wrongdoings that country has been involved with (or has created) in it s >history. > > No one is claiming sainthood for the US. We're human and we've made more than our share of mistakes over the years. I'm unaware of any perfect nations or perfect governments. But there must be something here for Canadians as from this time of year until Springtime, Interstate 75 will be packed with them heading to and from Florida. I hope they leave a lot of those Canadian dollars behind. ;^) Best Regards, Walker > Best, > > Robert (Un chevalier sans blason, mais de tres mauvaise humeur ce matin) >