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• • 10 May 09
  • 7:47 pm

  I happen to be a US citizen who now lives in Canada. while I know that there's been a lot of talk about the waiting lines up here, I personally have not encountered them. The one-payer system works well for me and all of my friends. we get health care and don't get a bill. That's right! The only time I pay is for elective items like having a mole removed which was certainly not life threatening. The cost savings is fantastic. My hospital has probably a tenth of the accounting staff that a similar sized US hospital has. Nurses don't …

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• • 11 May 09
  • 7:56 pm

  Thank you, gregsdiary, for the great video. I just saw where the cost of health care is up to 16% of the GDP. How can these people in good conscience think that they are serving the American people. Maybe we should get a busload of people to visit Senator Bunning at home to let him know what real people pay for health care in other countries and how much they need an efficient system.

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• • 12 May 09
  • 7:38 am

  Maybe a list of their addresses would be nice so the peasants can visit them to let them know how they feel. That stop at Poling's house is just the first warning of what could be. Maybe if the front men for them, i.e., these people you mentioned realized that they could be the next to be visited, things might change.

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• • 01 Jun 09
  • 7:57 pm

  I congratulate you on getting out there and doing something about this issue. I think there are a lot of people who are offended by what Congress is doing. In Canada, the man who got single payer health care going was Tommy Douglas of Saskatchewan almost 50 years ago. Today, he is looked back on as one of the greatest politicians in Canadian history. To say that his memory is revered is an understatement. Don't these politicians in Washington realize that they could make a major difference in people's lives if they just looked past the lobbyists and money? They too …

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