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**Tilmbeinymn** · 09-01-2012, 11:24 PM

Are you from mars? You probably at the end of the day pay as much in taxes and fees as Canadians do, and yet you have to buck up LARGE for your medical insurance and meds. God forbid if you end up in a critical medical situation.
I pay 50 bucks a month to the government health care system. If I need an operation for a critical situation, I'm in the OR right away. I know, it's so socialist.
In some provinces you pay a monthly fee...............of......... ZERO.

No, actually, I am originally from NY. One company I worked for in the US was from Ottawa, Canada. I had discussions about salary versus tax rates between the US and Canada. The Canadian employees were paying significantly more than I was at the same income level. It was thousands of dollars more. Not to mention adding the Canadian VAT into the picture. I do recall they loved talking about the universal health care system, however in the US health care has not yet been deemed a "right".

Now that I live in Cabarete, I was happy to see CMC come into existence and even changed insurance plans so that my family had one accepted there. Health care is not a "right" in the DR either unlike Canada.

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Tilmbeinymn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Are you from mars? You probably at the end of the day pay as much in taxes and fees as Canadians do, and yet you have to buck up LARGE for your medical insurance and meds. God forbid if you end up in a critical medical situation. I pay 50 bucks a month to the government health care system. If I need an operation for a critical situation, I'm in the OR right away. I know, it's so socialist. In some provinces you pay a monthly fee...............of......... ZERO. No, actually, I am originally from NY. One company I worked for in the US was from Ottawa, Canada. I had discussions about salary versus tax rates between the US and Canada. The Canadian employees were paying significantly more than I was at the same income level. It was thousands of dollars more. Not to mention adding the Canadian VAT into the picture. I do recall they loved talking about the universal health care system, however in the US health care has not yet been deemed a "right". Now that I live in Cabarete, I was happy to see CMC come into existence and even changed insurance plans so that my family had one accepted there. Health care is not a "right" in the DR either unlike Canada.
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