, Chocolatelover.

As a Canadian who has benefitted from our universal health care system my entire life, I can say that I wholly support having this system in place.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have to worry about making the choice to either pay for health care and/or prescriptions or to eat/pay the rent. I can only imagine that I would be homeless, severely ill and still in the violent throes of my addictions, if not already dead!

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Like others have already mentioned it is comforting to know that no matter our economic or social status or our health circumstances we all have equal access to medical care. * While there may be wait listed for non-life-threatening care we are always given front of the line service if time is a factor to the course of treatment.

It's not perfect and it is costly to support but I for one would prefer paying the higher taxes for a universal system than be on my own to pay for high priced medical services. I think I'd be in a constant state of anxiety if my primary and emergency health care was dependant on qualifying for private insurance or my own ability to pay.

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I can understand why many(?) Americans have difficulty with the concept of government having "control" of such a large part of a person's "life." And I don't think money is the issue as much as people think. It's in the concept of how Americans feel about how democracy ought to work (and does). We Canadians think a little different in our concept of what democracy is, or rather, how it should work, and this allows us to continue feeding this dream (and reality) we have(!) about this precious benefit. That, and like someone mentioned, we ARE only 10% the size, population-wise...

Getting too political?

Anyhow, haven't seen the film yet, so probably shouldn't be responding.