Canada Fights Back re Health Care

My husband brought this article/video from Canada's Globe and Mail News to my attention this morning. It's worth looking at . . . and I can almost guarantee you'll want to start packing your bags to move north afterward. They actually care about people . . . and families . . . it's astonishing.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-health-care-advocates-fire-back/article1267586/

from the 2004 election and didn't pass. I've seriously looked into trying to marry a Canadian so I could get into their country.

and they had the same exact treatment.

I read the NY TImes article today and found they had the same type of cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/health/28brain.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

My son had seizures in April 1998, the first he ever had. Three days later he had an operation, the first of three. It was found he had the glioblastmona. He was a few days short of 25 years old. He died the end of October 1999. He had the same kind of operation, radiation and chemo Teddy had.

The article said it was in 2005 that the beamed radiation and chemo was starting to be used but I think it was still under clinical trials when my son was treated in Toronto.

The cost of it all: Nothing.

Two months after our son's diagnosis my husband was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He had the operation, radiation, stem cell harvesting, chemo. He died in 2001.

I am a widow and not bankrupt. I can't seem to figure out why there is such a debate in the USA on this one payer system. You have Medicare, Medicaid and VA? Why not combine them all and all Americans get health care? We still have private health insurance up here for dental, eye, prescription drugs. (at 65 all seniors just pay 2 bucks for each prescription, no matter what it is.)
There are 50,000 lobbyists down there in DC for the health insurance and pharmaceuticals and many people like my American relatives are tricked into believing that this socialism is bad for them.
Just read Joe Bageant's book Deer Hunting with Jesus and you see realize all the Fox News viewers are in that book. I even have a brother named Bubba...He is so much like some of the people Joe writes about. Red, White and Blue and is proud of his ignorance of not knowing who my "president" is in Canada. Unbelievable!!! Guess that is why I watched on CNN yesterday how American students are falling behind in academics compared to the rest of the world.

for a high school social studies class (went to a very liberal university lab school). In the book, it explained the undue influence Big Pharma and the insurance industry had on Congress. It can only have gotten worse since then.