At the beginning of July, I visited Montreal and stayed at a friend's place for two nights. He has a Phd. in economics and has keenly observation on economic issue, politics, social contract there in Canada. He is a frequent customer of canada's healthcare service, broke his left arm in one year and broke his right arm the next year, has a young daughter that need to visit the family doctor from time to time for immune, and yearly checkup. To say it mildly, he is not a fan of the Canada healthcare system. He waited more than eight hours for one of his arm treatment in the emergency room, he could only make appointment with specialty doctor for a 7 month later visit. All in all, the system is "broken". It is cheap, don't get me wrong, but it is "broken".
Would the Obama healthcare reform change our current system to what Canada has? No question that we need to find ways to help the 5 pct to 10 pct people that were left behind by the system prior to the reform. However, the debates for the reform revealed that the president and majority of congress/senate were fixated on the if everyone buy insurance then issue solved idea instead of make rooms for a possible alternative solution. They are more focus on passing a bill instead of passing a bill that will work, a bill not only benefit the 5pct to 10 pct people that were left behind but also the 90pct to 95pct people that already benefit from the system prior to the reform.
Technologically speaking, the world's out of hand. Take the VCR. The whole idea of a VCR is that it makes it possible for you to tape what's on television while you're out of the house. But the whole point of being out of the house is so you can miss what's on television. Radio. Now there's a medium I can get behind -- from You've Got Mail by Frank Navasky
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