(11-16-2018 01:27 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  New England and the West Coast have been subsidizing the flyover states in the USA for decades. Not a real issue here, not a real issue there.

The "studies" that show this use some pretty creative math. In several ways, the methodologies are weighted heavily against producer states.

Quote:Canada has an interesting rule. If you don't live for 7 months of the year in Canada, you cannot be on their health care system. So perhaps they just put in a rule that allowed Canadians to buy into Obamacare and Americans to buy into Canada's Health System.

Or we pass Bismarck and Canadians quickly figure out that it's so much better than what we have that they adopt ours. This idea that Canada has such a wonderful heath care system is kind of a myth. Remember the 2000 WHO study where the left gleefully points out that the US ranked 37th? Any idea where Canada ranked? 30th. And it was the highest-ranked true single-payer system. All the rest were worse than the US. And in subsequent studies, it has ranked pretty poorly too. A comparison of Canadian health care to European rated it like 28th out of 30, and 30th when costs were factored in. But Canadians love their system, you say. Well, actually they sort of do, but the polls are interesting. When two questions are asked, number one, how do you rate your country's health care, and number two, how do you rate the specific health care available to you individually, Canadians rate their system higher than Americans do on the first question, but lower on the second. Or at least they did the last time I saw Gallup results on it.