You think WE have problems? Look how bad the Canucks have it

[burythehatchet]

http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=5475436e-4e6d-4dbb-9c00-f14ac532b1d9

Ont. hospitals, long-term care homes get $340 million for new equipment

TORONTO (CP) - Hospitals and long-term care homes across Ontario will get $340 million to upgrade their medical equipment, Health Minister George Smitherman announced Tuesday.
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Thank god we don't have to operate under that socialist model.

U - S - A ... U - S - A

on edit - SARCASM!!!!!

[TrogL]

1. that isn't all that much

Ontario had a Conservative government that slashed hospital budgets. They're just catching up now.

[ultraist]

2. Well, at least 45 million people are not going without medical care

There is an upside, that is for sure.

[burythehatchet]

3. I do hope you caught my sarcasm.

bush's 06 budget cuts 60 Billion frmo Medicaid while Canadians invest in infrastructure.

[jdj]

4. i was hoping, I was almost afraid to look

thanks for posting.

the biggest problem dems have in this country and have ever had is marketing.

and that's because the evil ones own the media.

If they didn't we'd be a first world country right now.

[Up2Late]

5. Hey, Ya know, With *'s Global Warming Plan...

S.W. Canada is warming up nicely.

A few more years of *, and I'm ready to give it a try.


Canada or Bust

[burythehatchet]

7. good point...I'll put that on the list along with my beachfront

in Arizona

[cyclezealot]

6. Don't think the story proved a thing.

Long term care..That is like Nursing homes..My Dad was born in Toronto...My Canadian uncles after seeing our problems appreciated their problems..Had to argue with your HMO gate keeper of late.
Ever visited American nursing homes..Canadian nursing homes are affordable...The spouse does not have to worry about losing her home...due to being robed...
The former PC Ontario government was worse than Maggie Thatcher..They were not out to underfund it , they were out to destroy it..In spite of Maggie Thatcher, Socialist medicine endure in England..I am sure they would not want our system..
I am surprised , here at DU...we have members still haunted by the Reagan boogeymen name calling has its' effects instead of looking into other systems rationally..

[cyclezealot]

8. I see Hatchet's reply to his thread.

I am sorry...We do have fewer than the general population influenced by the Reagan boogeymen...

[burythehatchet]

9. Canada has a FANTASTIC system

as does France, Germany, and every civilized nation. Even Cuba has a better system than the US. My post was a lame attempt at humor through sarcasm

[cyclezealot]

10. Is your avatar Frank Zapa.?

Zapa would never condemn the Canadian system...

[Lautremont]

11. MOST of us caught it, I feel safe in saying.

The chants of U-S-A! U-S-A! pretty much sewed it up!

Cuba has a better system even than Canada. It's pretty amazing and highly civilized.

[Ladyhawk]

12. Some of you need to take your sarcasm detectors in for repairs. :) n/t

[burythehatchet]

13. heh..heh..thanks Ladyhawk

:)