>I guess Americans don't count their health insurance premiums as "taxes", and I wonder what the cost of *my* insurance in the U.S. would have been given that I had a "pre-existing condition"????
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Not everyone here pays taxes. For instance many of the rich pay little or nothing in taxes in our country. However, over 44 million people in the United States have no medical insurance. You have no right to get sick and receive medical treatment in our nation. That is the way it is.

Only those with money or insurance should receive medical treatment or those who are illegal aliens! Even having medical insurance may do you little or no good. It depends upon your policy and the clerk who is administrating it.



>We do have an insignificant - by comparison to tyhe U.S. - military establishment. We told our government, years ago, that being healthy was more important to us than being mighty. We wouldn't mind both, but the choice is for the former when it can't be both.

Considering that the population of California is greater than that of Canada, I think our national guard exceeds your military in numbers! :)

The bottom line - do not get sick or injured! Also, enlist in the military before they draft you! The military has pills called APC's (All Purpose Capsules) that cure any disease. They also have #13 square needles that I remember well! :)

Tom