From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: Death of Canada (Was: Death of America)
Followup-To: talk.politics.misc,alt.conspiracy
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:58:52 GMT

cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:

>>>you've avoided the point though. the government still decides.
>>>and there is NOTHING to prevent them from drastically reducing
>>>coverage in the future. 
>>
>>You mean like private insurance is now weaselling people all over
>>the United States?  I've read in the Times recently that 100,000
>>Americans a month are getting booted for using the insurance that
>>they paid for when they were healthy ...
>
>more poor reasoning. so you would rather have the government do it?

In the end, what's the difference?  And so far, it's not being done ...

>again, just because it is bad down here, that doesn't mean going to
>something worse is the solution.

So far, you've not demonstrated that things are worse up north.
You have repeated some rhetoric that Americans are familiar with
but that the originators (the AMA, the HIAA) are moving away from
in their health industry lobbying poker game.

>and your implicit comments again show your bias: why should someone
>who has been very healthy and not had to deal with medical care NOT
>be annoyed at being forced to pay for others' medical care?

If they're careless and shortsighted enough to think that there are
identifiable correlations for every know illness and they are free
from it.  Let me tell you about a friend who recently found out that
she has pituitary cancer: vegetarian w/some dairy since age 16 (she
is now 29), part-time aerobics teacher, semi-body builder, former
marathon runner.  Free-lance architect with an M.A.  What'd she do
wrong?  If you can figure out an algorithm to explain why, found a
start-up company and market it ...

>i also don't see many other canadians running to oppose my statements
>against canada's outrageous taxes and social spending, nor the 
>morally-bankrupt fundamentals which underly them (though that may
>change after *this* paragraph).

I found your thread while making system backups on a late saturday
night (had a long day, waited for the tapes to stop spinning).  It
is hard to think that a lot of people have been logged on in the
past 12 or more hours ...  yer right, you just tossed out a nice
piece of bait there! (-;  Maybe a few will come ...

In fact, I just remembered that very few Canadians and Europeans
hang out in Talk.politics.misc since it's dominated by American
issues.  Soc.culture.canada for expatriates and Can.politics in
Canada and a few foreign sites is where we mostly hang out ...
I'll just repost this excerpt in case people want to drop in and
check out a very interesting thread (it's not often one finds a
Canadian and devout libertarian ...)  "Death of America" followed
by "Death of Canada" (hey, I'm pooped!)

gld
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