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Idiocracy

Nik said:
Arn said:
What way does the Canadian healthcare system work?
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I think the primary difference between the Canadian system and the NHS is that while single-payer healthcare is a federal mandate, owing to the separation of powers outlined in Canada's federation, health care is administered by the Provinces. So we don't have a national insurance program but rather a provincial one. So it's regional but there are certain mechanisms in place to try and ensure a continuous level of service regardless of whether you're in a wealthier province or not and all of our provincial plans have reciprocal arrangements to cover us if we're travelling within the country.

On a larger scale it is a public health system with some private services available at the margins and, as of yet, without a national pharmacare plan. Like I think you're experiencing over there there does tend to be a movement by people on the right to allow more for-profit stuff to creep in.
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Sounds like a system that could work in the USA... if it weren't so communist  ;D

 
Arn said:
Nik said:
Arn said:
What way does the Canadian healthcare system work?
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I think the primary difference between the Canadian system and the NHS is that while single-payer healthcare is a federal mandate, owing to the separation of powers outlined in Canada's federation, health care is administered by the Provinces. So we don't have a national insurance program but rather a provincial one. So it's regional but there are certain mechanisms in place to try and ensure a continuous level of service regardless of whether you're in a wealthier province or not and all of our provincial plans have reciprocal arrangements to cover us if we're travelling within the country.

On a larger scale it is a public health system with some private services available at the margins and, as of yet, without a national pharmacare plan. Like I think you're experiencing over there there does tend to be a movement by people on the right to allow more for-profit stuff to creep in.
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Sounds like a system that could work in the USA... if it weren't so communist  ;D
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It?s really not even the socialism part of it they have a problem with.  Republicans have had no problem with social handouts for incompetently run Deep South states or corporate welfare.  They just hate the idea of money going to ethnicities and groups they don?t like.  America is built on a large pile of hatred and discrimination and they get off on it.
 
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1327299859804729345

Geeze starting to think electing a qanon believer might not have been a good idea.
 
When will these dipshits learn that it?s not about them wearing the mask it?s as much about catching as it is about spreading.

God that country is full of morons. Why aren?t seatbelts oppressive? Or no smoking areas? How about helmets for motorcycles or bikes?

Just so stupid.
 
Come on now,  "How about helmets for motorcycles", if a Yankee idiot wants to break his noggin like Gallagher smashing watermelons, then why the hell not?  On less Redneck on the road to shoot you.  Ya Hee!
 
That list of speakers reads like something on Family Guy where the whole joke is you don't know who any of those people are.

Just a bunch of sad grifters desperately clinging to their grift.
 
Anyone think this has some value?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8948879/Bill-Maher-urges-Democrats-reevaluate-hypersensitive-woke-BS.html

 
That feels more like Maher trying to make the facts fit a narrative he's long been pushing more than any serious analysis. The idea that Democrats doing worse than expected being a result of people hating Trump but also Democrats is disputed by most of the serious election analysis I've read that says that Trump's good showing has far more to do with his ability to turn out low-propensity voters.
 
Nik said:
That feels more like Maher trying to make the facts fit a narrative he's long been pushing more than any serious analysis. The idea that Democrats doing worse than expected being a result of people hating Trump but also Democrats is disputed by most of the serious election analysis I've read that says that Trump's good showing has far more to do with his ability to turn out low-propensity voters.
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I think the statement was more about the Democrats not capitalizing on a full 5 minute 5-on-3 PP, even aside from Biden vs. Trump...why weren't they able to win more Congressional seats and Senate seats, even maybe appeal more to those low-propensity voters.

(Does anyone else remember Kaberle saying "PP"?)
 
Frank E said:
I think the statement was more about the Democrats not capitalizing on a full 5 minute 5-on-3 PP, even aside from Biden vs. Trump...why weren't they able to win more Congressional seats and Senate seats, even maybe appeal more to those low-propensity voters.
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Right but what I'm saying is that the Democrats didn't have a full 5 minute 5 on 3. It just looked like they did because most polling models tend to think that low-propensity voters tend not to show up. Trump's ability to get them to ate into a lot of what turned out to be an exaggerated sense of advantage for Biden. Combine that with the number of Republicans who didn't like Trump but still wanted to support their party and you had a bunch of split ticket votes which explains why Biden won but the Democrats didn't do well down-ballot.

I get that the idea being sold is that Trump was a disaster of a President and that the Democrats should have won in a cakewalk but that ignores some of the reality of what we'd seen regarding Trump's relatively stable(albeit low) approval rating where even the coming of Covid and the subsequent damage done to Economy didn't really affect his support much in the polls. If mass unemployment and hundreds of thousands of plague-deaths didn't bury Trump, I think it's an uphill climb to make the argument that some Democrats saying "Latino" instead of "Latinx" would have done the trick.

 
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