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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No. I'm a Canadian that actually knows what socialized programs like healthcare do to a country. It's not great. Socialized medicine is one of the major of the hundred little cuts impoverishing Canadians. Mississippi and Alabama have higher per capita average income and personal wealth than the richest Canadian province, before and after taxes. Despite the huge amount of wealth transfer to the government for reallocation, they inevitably start acting like its their money, wasted in ridiculous ways aside from the original point, a bureaucratic mafia forms intent on nothing but its own continuance, and then you've Canadians denied health insurance either formally (I'm not allowed to have it because I've not a fixed address in the province I pay income tax, but i can't just not pay taxes either) or informally by denial of needed care (that's the common one). I do have American health insurance. I spend 5 months a year in the states, acquiring insurance was as simple as paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not being impoverished by universal health care, I'm being impoverished by corporation and those "free market" fucks who are anti union, anti workers, and pro fascism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Insults are a sure sign that your argument was destroyed and you can't handle it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Just keep telling yourself that