re: #186 McSpiff

The whole “Canadians have private insurance too!” thing seems to be coming up a lot. I know klys didn’t mean it in a wing nutty way, but I figured providing some background couldn’t hurt.

I certainly appreciate more info, as it’s not something I’ve had the chance to look too indepth on - just enough to know that yes, the government doesn’t cover everything so folks do have this private stuff but no, it doesn’t cost an arm and three legs like the American shit.

I have to spend too much time trying to figure out our family’s plan. Which is changing. For the second time in 12 months (first the employer stopped offering what we’d had, now they’re selling the division and so now we have a new employer and it’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT and oh hey, we need to withdraw some of the HSA contributions too).

What I wouldn’t give for even just the Canadian system.