Given all of the discussion about health reform in America, I thought I would pass along a link forwarded to me by a member of our marketing and communications team that he discovered while vacationing in Canada. It is an opinion written by Jeffrey Simpson in "The Globe and Mail" news from Quebec City entitled "In Quebec, health care is no longer a free ride."
The discussion focuses on the ever inflating costs that "free" healthcare in Quebec are consuming and changes that are being proposed to slow the increase of government spending on healthcare. Ideas being discussed are a citizen "contribution" to increase healthcare revenues (note the attempt to not say "tax") and the notion of physician co-pays to which the opinion notes “ ...to this is added the extra fear that change will lead inexorably to U.S.-style medicine.”
So maybe we are not alone in our attempts to reform healthcare and control escalating costs? However, the person sending this to me noted..."You can’t escape the high rate of taxes around here and the massive government subsidies. I can tell you that there is a 10-15% tax on meals; makes our 6% sales tax seem puny. However, people don’t seem any less “free” than we do."
Interesting times indeed, your thoughts?
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What would happen if governments had to practice truth in advertising? The tax refunds that bring so many people joy would be accompanied with this little note from the IRS: "Thanks for the interest free loan. Bought a bulletproof stretch limo with it. The ladies love it!"
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