• GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    You will care when you have some heart pain, and a $194,000 hospital bill. Which would bankrupt 98% of UCP voters. That’s the part I can’t wrap my head around. You haven’t paid for shit when it comes to health care.

    I work with Americans every day. One just went and had a baby and got a $19k hospital bill for the privilege. Copay this and copay that.

    Careful what you wish for.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve not had health insurance in 8 years. Alberta won’t issue a card if you’ve no fixed address, and I’m a stubborn trucker with a mail box. I’ve sure paid for it though. The tax rates are insane.

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        So your favorite solution to that isn’t to fix that issue, it’s to privatize healthcare so you need to have private insurance instead? How do you think that will go, Mr I don’t have a fixed address? Why do you want to make sure more people have to deal with the same issue you’ve got?

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            2 months ago

            Oh ok, so you’re a homeowner in Saskatchewan but you’re complaining that you can’t get insurance in a province you don’t reside in? And you own a house after moving out of another province but you don’t live in it? And I guess you didn’t think that it might be a good idea to get coverage from the province where you own a house since it will work everywhere in Canada anyway… I nstead your thought process was that it would be at good idea to pay for both public healthcare through your Canadian taxes AND private coverage in the USA? I get that right?

            Sounds to me like someone has been lying a lot to try and prove their point! How about building your opinions on facts for a change? Because right now either you’re building a big pile of lies or you’re the kind of person that doesn’t let logic get in their way!

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              I’m not discussing my finances with you to any great detail, or reading that mess. I own a home I don’t reside in, in another province, and that is a recent development as opposed to working in Alberta as a trucker 7 years with no health card.

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                So… You were living in Vancouver until 6 years ago but have been uninsured for 8 years but have started working as a trucker in Alberta 7 years ago and you now own a house in Saskatchewan but you don’t live in it but you brag about owning it while also saying in other comments that you want to move to the USA…

                So you could be covered under BC health until 6 years ago because you lived in BC (but decided to not be covered two years prior) and you own a house in Saskatchewan since not too long ago so you could be insured in that province but decide not to be for some reason…

                Man, I’m not a detective but it sure does sound like you just got caught in a bunch of lies right there!