Yes Norway is now the "best country in the world to live", a claim Canada used to hold
. When Canada was knocked out of that position one of the reasons was cut backs to our health care. Don't knock public Health care though, virtually every country has it, even the US. The difference is how deparate you have to be before you can take advantage of it. In the late 80's this became debated here in Canada Due to statements made during a US presidential Election about how Canada's system cost Canadians so much. The Statistics were collected and at least at that time in Canada, where we have universal health care, spent less taxpayers money on it per Capita than the US did. Why? Because if it is Universal people go to see the Doctor as soon as they think they may have a problem. According to the Article I read at that time, in countries without universal/Free health care many people would put it off untill they were really serious and by the time public health care kicked in for them things were really expensive. If you don't have free health care I say take out insurance. hopefully it will be a waste of money but if you ever need it you will be thankful. We take out house insurance but we don't hope that it will pay off. We hope we never have to use it. It has been interesting reading this and although the Canadians have been saying we arn't ofended by the coments that is because we are so polite. Of course we feel a little offended when people critisize our health care (aparently our universal health care is the thing that Canadians value the most) but hey, we're Canadians, we always feel offended we just never say so. Thats the second major thing we value, being so Darn nice
Now I will be a true Canadian and apologise to everyone I might have ofended in my above tirade.
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