This is the trade off

Experimental traetmets are expensive

Yeah, Canada and the US have this healthcare deal almost in place where our folks migrate over the border if they need something from the other system

So it wont get funding

Ye Ye

But yeah like, other surgeries i've had, esp emergency ones

When I was... Between 5 and 7 some fuck picked me up by the feet and swung me around for kicks and cracked my head open on a brick pillar.

My biggest objection to nationalized healthcare will always be the potential for political weaponization

Got staples and meds within an hour, pretty much free

ditto the time I fell on a set floor and simultaniously split my chin open and bit almost through my lower lip

Look at how much the US government managed to politically weaponize *collecting income taxes*

*wet floor

Then imagine what it could do with *literal life-or-death power*

yeeaaah

your guv'ment lies to do that

*likes

I wouldn't doubt that yours does, too, you just hear less about it

We do it silently

I've heard rumors of "death councils" or whatnot in Canada for people on life support, since the healthcare buck stops with the government in Canada instead of the family

y'all are so fucking loud on the world stage Canada can do almost anything without being noticed

Gordon Sinclair said something to that effect

"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."

There's a pierre trudeau quote I like, for when I talk about america a lot and someone says "why does it matter we're not America":

well hey, if it makes you feel any better..:

As a Canadian speaking right after the US pulled out of Vietnam, he continued, "Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."

`"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. Pierre Trudeau"`

My favorite Pierre Trudeau quote is this one

He was a real badass

@franti The author of the original saw fit to lump in VA and DHS with DOD, so I thought it was only fair to do the same

Yannow, I went to NYC once

and saw the national debt clock

That quote I have that image of is from annexation.ca

your country was going up by like 100,000 per secon

(my screen wasn't scrolling so I missed all the messages)

14,000,000,000,000 and rising constantly

the fuck is wrong with yuo guys

Nowadays we have this http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Portable debt clock!

With details

that's debt