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1. almost 2 years ago on Ginger Meggs

   Curriculum Vitae, a document which describes the course of your academic and professional accomplishments.

2. almost 4 years ago on Chip Bok

   So what’s the explanation for Oregon, California, New Jersey and New York state’s COVID resurgence?

3. over 8 years ago on Lisa Benson

   Timothy Mc Veigh used a semi automatic rifle?

4. over 8 years ago on Brewster Rockit

   Should she be texting while driving?

5. about 9 years ago on Glenn McCoy

   Can you give the source of the facts you state?

6. about 9 years ago on Brewster Rockit

   Good thing that Pluto isn’t a planet any more or it wouldn’t work.

7. over 9 years ago on [Deleted]

   Thanks for the stats.

   I not sure why you put in the dig about me just looking for negative propaganda. I could say you are only putting out positive propaganda and not acknowledging problems with the Canadian system. For instance the 4.5 month wait time we have been talking about has doubled since it started to be measured in 1993 according to articles I have read. Other countries with universal care don’t seem to have that kind of problem.

   Now that the ACA seems to be not working as anticipated, some people have been calling for single payer as the next step in the US, and there have been calls for in my home state to do that too. Articles I read about Canada and the UK makes it sound like single payer is not necessarily the best option. My experiences with an HMO, which seems like a single payer system to me, have also made me leery. No sense in getting out of the frying pan into the fire. From what I’ve read it seems the systems you mentioned in a previous post that use private insurance companies have better outcomes and satisfaction rates than single payer.

8. over 9 years ago on Gary Varvel

   Okay, lonecat’s father in law got in right way. But the article he quotes says the wait for the average Canadian is 4 1/2 months. An average is a typical value so obviously some people are going to do better, and some will do worse. You still haven’t refuted the statements in the articles or their contentions about single payer.

9. over 9 years ago on Gary Varvel

   I guess you saying it is propaganda makes it so. You really refuted the statements in the articles alright.

10. over 9 years ago on Gary Varvel

    These three articles seem to say differently. Have things improved since they were written? The articles all appear to be written by Canadians.

    http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=97f935dd-f48d-4707-a9b3-f88e8aeafe24

    http://nypost.com/2014/04/16/the-false-promise-of-single-payer-healthcare/

    http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html