Quote:Originally posted by Bonk@Mar 26 2018, 03:32 PM



I said office to be generic. I worked for a small company, marking trees in the woods. The pay for marking trees in the woods, is what it sounds like. Although we did process the data into the computer the office.There is no way that income neared middle class but I was just out of school and paying my dues. And that statement about health care was what I was told by Canadians doing the same job I was doing. But they (the Canadians) were just do it with dipping weepy poison oak, coughing and hacking or dealing with whatever ailment they had everywhere in the workplace until they found out or were told that they could just go to the doctor. Our company did provided the legal minimum insurance requirements and if I remember right that might have been the only benefits offered except for maybe borrowing the company truck to move over the weekend. Thank god my time there was brief, Although I worked with some great people and made a few fantasy sports friends that I still chat with today. Again I have never used the Canadian health care thus I would not want to comment on it. I was just saying that I have differently from Canadians that have used both systems.

Edit: Although a few of them were Newfies.

I know, just explaining what the possible reasons they preferred American healthcare. Especially if you're in a profession that requires you to get a lot of medical aid (I was when I worked construction, probably got stitches in my hand 3 times) it can be frustrating, because, while it's free, the waiting times are ridiculous

So just kind of allocating the pros and cons of each and why they might have felt that way, especially since you haven't really seen the Canadian healthcare system in action. It's actually not that great in the grand scheme of things, and we rank very middling