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I see that the topic about Affordable Health Care has been locked and we can no longer post a reply. I felt challenged about the remark about the Canadian health care system and wanted to make a clarification. I don't feel that it is fair to make a vague criticism without knowing the facts.

If allowed I would like to explain how it works for me.

Well, do take a look at Canada. As a Canadian I will share my situation. In Canada there are agreements between the Federal government and the Provinces that give us affordable healthcare. In my Province of British Columbia my husband and I pay about $106.00 per month which covers both of us for health care. We don't pay extra to see our primary care physician, specialists, surgeons, CT Scans, cancer treatments, MRI's, surgery, hospital stays, mammograms, colonoscopys, etc etc. There are some Doctors who opt out of medicare and charge whatever they want to folk who can pay whatever they want, good for them.

I have annual mammograms, as a cancer survivor regular colonoscopys, all our routine and not routine bloodwork. My husband has to go and have several suspicious skin spots removed, no charge.

No one is turned away by a doctor or our Medical Services Plan if they become sick or have a pre existing condition.

Sure our system is not perfect, what system is, but we have not been bankrupted or lost our home by medical costs that had we been elsewhere we might have.