Re: OT Sarah on Canadian healthcare


"mario in victoria" <mario5491@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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MWB wrote:

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I work on Canadian oil tankers out of New Brunswick and Newfoundland. I
also grew up on the Maine - New Brunswick border.

I'm old enough to remember paying $0.60 for an Imperial gallon of
gasoline.

I remember filling my TR3 for $4.50. :-(


Gas in New Brunswick is $1.029 a liter and Canada is floating on an ocean
of crude oil.

That's gas is here in Victoria.

I want health care reform and I don't like this bill. I've never seen
something this crooked in all my life.

I pay $400 a month for my wife and myself. That aslo includes dental and
eyecare. I'm very happy with my insurance. For a 90 day prescription I
pay $4.00. If I buy a $400.00 pair of glasses, I'll have to pay around
$200.00. The examination is $10.00. It pays 80% of my dental.

When my wife and I were together, we worked at the same place. I believe
'family' coverage with our extras provider was $225/mo (if I didn't work
50 hrs a month). It covered all scripts, your glasses twice a yr, 80% of
most dental, 50% of bridges, crowns, etc., with a $1500/per person annual
ceiling. (so you schedule stuff across Xmas...)

I've been talking to my Canadian friends about health care for some time
now. I have yet to meet one that doesn't like their health care system. I
have a friend from Halifax that now lives in Maine. He likes the Canadian
system better, but when he considers the lower taxes and cheaper goods,
he thinks the Canadian system is more expensive.

That's the killer, the taxes and costs. Mind you, in some ways we get more
our tax buck (pretty good social safety net), but it IS more expensive
here. BUT we get (for the consumer) cheap, universal health care.

It's more expensive to live in Canada.

Clothing and footwear is far more expensive.

Not the good stuff, it's about the same. The bottom to middle end stuff is
much more expensive than in the US. Appliances, etc., all basically more
expensive. Strangely enough, when I was in Toronto computers were MUCH
cheaper in Canada.


I heard from someone that there's a $600ish fee to register a motorcycle
and more for a high performance bike.

That's a provincial (state) matter. It varies from province to province. I
think my cars cost about $55 per year. It's confusing because we have
mandatory government (basic) auto insurance here, meaning that you can't
get plates renewed without getting insurance.

%600 seems a little high, but I don't know enough about motorcycles.
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mario in victoria
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had a ducati when i was younger

We have to have auto insurance in Maine. I like that law, however if you
don't own a car, you don't have to buy it.

I loved living on the Canadian border.

I've gone to the Imperial refinery in Halifax twice and I discovered the
DONAIR.

When we were kids in the 1960's we bought our groceries in Woodstock, New
Brunswick. Going to Canada was a daily thing for me for some time.

In the mid 1970's I worked at a bar. There were three guys from Canada that
would stop in for a drink every afternoon. They wore shorts in -20F temps. A
couple of hours later they'd stop in for another drink wearing several
layers of clothes. It took me a couple of days to figure out, they were
smuggling clothes.


I always take the BEST BUY flyer on a ship. A few years ago there was a good
sale on microwaves. The Canadian crew bought about 30 microwaves and to
avoid paying duty, they put them in the galley in plain sight. Canadian
customs didn't notice them.

I see this a lot. Guys getting banged up in Canada and they'll wait to get
to the States and go to a quick care. More so with dental. They'll put up
with a toothache and see a dentist here.

I've been having a very good discussion with a lady my age and we know
what's going on. She's works on the oil tanker MATTEA, out of the Hibernia
field.

I went on the ship the day Danny Williams came to the states. She wasn't
happy to see me. The Newfies love Danny Williams and they don't have a
problem with what he did.


You guys have to be looking down upon U.S. and thinking....WHY US.


GO RED SOX NATION


Mark





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