"Scream Machine" <shake_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I can't remember where I read it, but I read somewhere that the heavy
users
> of the Canadian healthcare system are newcomers to Canada (immigrants).
Can
> anyone confirm this?
This is a figure you'll probably never get in Canada, like the true cost of
bilingualism it'll be classified. The reason being off course is that if
people knew where their tax dollars were going, they might get agitated. In
Canada it's the old mushroom principle and it sure works on Canadians.
I just saw a bit on a report in the US as to the cost to the medical system
due to illegal immigrants.
The numbers I forget exactly but I remember it as being more than the total
budget for Homeland Security.
I waited to see it again but it never showed up, having a short life span as
items of that sort usually do. It's a hot potato that nobody wants to
confront.
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> I'm just curious as to know if this has anything to do with the push for a
> more privatized user-pay system.
> The breakdown of communities in free-market societies is quite apparent -
> i.e.. New York where everyone is trigger-happy rude. Home builders and
> developers routinely produce seductive ads selling the idea of a happy
> picket-fenced utopian community, where everyone knows each other, and all
> unified happily together. And in the US, "gated-communities" are all the
> rage - a feeble attempt to create the illusion of what community once
was -
> the idea of security, and everyone knowing each other as one big happy
> tribe. With capitalism and market economics, "community" has been
> obliterated.
>
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Gated-communities and secure buildings are our future. .... for those who
can afford it. That's the price of tribalism and our complacency.
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> Has the breakdown of the community and the loss of cohesion (with
> multiculturalism) had anything to do with this desire or move for
privatized
> health-care?
>
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Probably 'need' is the better word.
Received on Sat Aug 28 2004 - 13:43:59 PDT