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Originally Posted by DennisAJC
That's completely false. Canadian Pharmaceutical Companies are world leaders in invention and development of drugs.
For you to state that millions of Americans buying American made drugs CHEAPER in Canada just doesn't make sense. Unless it's another faux pas to your system of government.
Does that include your black and Hispanic population? More money per person really says nothing for people like me. At most a few hundred complaining about our health care in nothing compared to the 70% of your population not being able to afford it.
Our politicians are liars and gas is expensive. That's pretty much it. It's a short list. 
As oppose to:
1. Your looming potential financial meltdown due to the combination of massive annual federal budget deficits and even more massive and growing annual current account deficits.
2. Election fraud.
3. Campaign financing and the buying of elections and those elected.
4. A continued and unsustainable influx of illegal immigrants and the consequent downward push on wages and quality of life.
5. Outsourcing of manufacturing and white collar jobs and the inevitable long term decline in living standards.(Note: this decline is only temporarily being masked by having household incomes only marginally declining due to both husband and wife working, by an influx of cheap imports, and by a huge increase in household credit card debt.
6. The looming bankruptcy of the Government Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
7. The looming shortfalls in your Social Security Fund and the disastrous effects "privatization" will have on it.
8. The looming bankruptcy of Medicare and Medicaid.
9. An unaffordable and increasingly unreliable medical care system.
10. Unaffordable medicine.
11. An inequitable and increasingly non-progressive tax system.
12. Continued media consolidation and control by a few Corporations.
13. A foreign policy that is isolating the United States, alienating allies, creating enemies, actually serving to encourage nuclear proliferation, and creating the impression abroad (EVEN among the thoughtful there in America) the the United States is now the "evil empire".
14. An even split down the middle in American Unity.
But I'm sure every American is aware of this. That's why voting for the right one in 2008 is paramount.
Hillary can help America.
But seriously, let's make one thing clear here. We are all pretty much the same. Our compassions and emotions to our everyday rat race is relatively the same. We are just the little people. It's our governments that define our countries and the perception of the people within them. These are not sharp criticism aimed at you folks but towards the people that run your system.
.....And we're talking about our Canadian Dollar. So let's get back on track now shall we?
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All Lies! Damned Lies!! And Canadian Lies!!
Seriously, most people here can afford good healthcare. Most (85%) are insured. Many who aren't can afford it, but choose not to. Most of the rest are covered by meidcaid/medicare. In any event, it's illegal for hospitals here to turn away emergency patients for lack of payment or insurance. Canadians may manufacture drugs developed by American companies, but without the American innovation, the drugs would not exist in the first place. What are the Canadian counterparts to: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Wyeth, Eli Lilly, etc ... ?