File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 310


Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:55:35 +1100
From: Lorax <atc25-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: the draft


> 
> 
> > >Why does everybody seem to think Canada is some kind of utopian
> > >society.  I've met lots of people who have this idea and all the
> > >Canadians I've met disagree with them.
> > >Lorax
> > 
> > I think it is just canada's position relative to the usa.  In canada, our
> > health coverage is universal and fairly effective--things are unravelling
> > of course and perhaps it will be dismantled before long, but nonetheless it
> > is still there.
> > 
> > Larry
> 
> You've probably met the ones who've left. My bro went there and he 
> certainly prefers it to Blighty [except for the beer, the minus 30 
> winter]. Health care is better than our NHS but drugs are more 
> expensive.
> 
> 
> _as
> 
> 
> 
Health care in NZ used to be really good but now it's crap.
Just a few years ago a guy died because he was refused kidney 
treatment on the grounds that he was old and mentally infirm.
It probably didn't help that he wasn't white either.
Health care the Nazi way.
Lorax
 
 
 

   

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