One of these days I swear I’m going to move to the US.
I’ve taken to saying this quite often in the past while, and the response has uniformly been incredulity. Why on earth would I want to do something like that?
Aside from the fact that it may soon be illegal to affirm the doctrines of my religion (c.f. bill C-250), here’s yet another reason:
Martin keeps saying that we can’t have US tax levels and Canadian health care. But the US spends more per capita on PUBLIC health care than we do. In fact, if you count the tax credits given to employers on their employees’ health premiums, they even spend more as a share of GDP. So it’s not because their tax rates are lower that 43 million people are uninsured. (And anyway, insured or not, no one goes without treatment. Whereas here everyone is insured, but not everyone gets treated.)
And who might you cite as an authority on this? Roy Romanow, that’s who. It’s right there in the Romanow report.