Re: non-plagio questions for Canada and UK

[Guest guest]

Okay, everybody, I have a burning curiosity about health care availability in countries that are not HMO-oriented!

I received a really bad joke recently about how our former first lady tried to remove health insurance in our country when, as I recall, she was trying to standardize it like it is in the UK and Canada. Be that as it may, and trying to understand the joke (it's a Bin Laden joke, incidentally) I am wondering, is it really difficult to get health care in your countries? I know that HMO's are a total joke here, and I wonder if standardized health care is actually the way to go.

As you noticed, this is definitely not a plagio related question, and not really a necessary one, either, but this is the only site where I know other people in the aforementioned countries who deal with both kinds of insurance (HMO and otherwise) on a fairly regular basis. Anne, Kendra, any comments?

Really I am just curious so it's perfectly okay to ignore this question! ;-)

hugs to all!

Jill Ramos, Las Vegas, NV

Mommy of Tommy (DOC grad 10/26/01)

and Gavin (who loves to scream in public places),

14 months old