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As far as Canadian healthcare, it serves as an excellent example of the problems with socialist tendencies. Everyone has healthcare, but those who can afford it still go to the US for care. Interesting. I wonder why....
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here in austria we get 3 years parental leave and youll be paid around 70 percent of your salary but you can also get request some additional income for your govt
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As for the same analogy, we go to freikin Thailand for some procedures because it is cheaper and because of our great HMOs... |
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I think what FirstClass was saying is that when a Canadian citizen can not get in to a Canadian health care facility quickly enough they are often sent to the U.S for care, since the U.S has a much larger base of hospitals. For example, when my mother had chemotherapy she was sent to Buffalo because Hamilton, the only Southern Ontario hospital with a chemo center at the time, was booked 27 months out (and she'd have been long gone before then). The Canadian government still pays the bill (at a much higher cost, of course).
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He's got it good and it is not typical. My wife is due in a month, and she only gets 16 wks of pay from her employer (and it's a good employer). Federal law is 52 weeks of parental leave (which can be split between both parents), but the monetary benefit is only 55% of your earnings to a maximum of $423/wk.
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In Canada no one waits for urgent surgery, unfortunately in some markets (especially urban), people do wait for non-emergency surgery. In the US people still wait-not everyone with insurance has the same access-some insurance plans are better than others. Hospitals in older US cities (NY, Boston, etc.) look exactly the same as in Mtl or Toronto. Hospitals in newer urban areas are more modern in both jurisdictions and outside urban centers in both cases access to health care can be spotty, especially access to specialists. I am lucky enough that I would be able to afford the top insurance for my familly, but despite that I am still glad to live here over all-and no our system is not perfect, but neither is the US one. To the poster who still believes that the ideological principles of your founding fathers are applied to the letter - please don't ever come here to free us...... ![]() I am not a US hater, far from it I often spend a lot time defending the US in social circles, I just don't like it when people whip out their stereotypical self serving arguments. And if anyone thinks we are socialist but the US is not, the budget per beneficiary for Medicaid and food stamps is greater than here. You want to know what socialism is (as opposed to communism), go to Finland (not that there is anything wrong with that). I think people should be carefull when throwing out ideas and arguments about countrries - like religion and politics it often touches a sensitive nerve. For the information of all of our US friends, we Canadians love our country too ![]()
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I lived in the US for 8 wonderful years....I will say that Canadians aren't as argumentative about social or political issues.....we agree to disagree much easier!
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lol but Europe has a different medical system... France has higher taxes.. 40% or something? but you don't pay any medical bills. its a trade off...
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Yeah.... all these luxuries are great. Free health care, maternity leave, welfare, social programs, etc etc etc... Of course it comes at a price, if you're a regular working person in Quebec you are taxed out the ass.
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For maternity, I think we get 6wks ... unpaid. Paternity is nothing, except there are some vague provisions under the Family Medical Leave Act. But again, it's unpaid. Because my son was born premature, my wife took 9wks, again unpaid. And her boss was all over her pressuring her to come back to work or be fired. Which isn't legal, but the burden would be on her to get a lawyer and go after him. He was a dick though, so the minute we didn't need her healthcare to cover the medical expenses of my son, she quit. |
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