Stupid socialized medicine!

[Tmall]

My taxes pay for my health care. Sounds like socialized medicine to me...

I know you'll likely be able to break it down even further. Likely into a different category of socialism. But, socialism as a title works for me.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Tmall

Fact: donations are a form of socialism.

Donations are voluntary, not socialism.

[karl_1052]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

The Nazis taught us a lot of useful things about human anatomy... Fuck socialized medicine genocide is the way to go.

K THx bye

Godwin FTW!

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

Donations are voluntary, not socialism.

Saying that socialized medicine has resulted in this breakthrough may be inaccurate, but it still stands that this is the sort of thing that the detractors to universal health care say would never happen under such a system. It's just another in a long line of medical discoveries for Canadians.

*EDIT* It took me about ten seconds to find that the B.C. Cancer Agency is an agency of the British Columbia Health Services Agency, making it part of the government health care network.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Saying that socialized medicine has resulted in this breakthrough may be inaccurate, but it still stands that this is the sort of thing that the detractors to universal health care say would never happen under such a system. It's just another in a long line of medical discoveries for Canadians.

*EDIT* It took me about ten seconds to find that the B.C. Cancer Agency is an agency of the British Columbia Health Services Agency, making it part of the government health care network.

Any person can find a way to do something great under any government system. I wouldn't be one to say Canadians couldn't do something like this under their system.

All I said was donations weren't socialism.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Technically speaking we don't have a socialized medical system, we have a single payer medical system. The difference escapes most, but it means that we actually have privately run hospitals.

There is a huge difference

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

There is a huge difference

As much as the difference between being a liberal and being a socialist, which is a distinction that also escapes far too many people.

Originally Posted by Trip

Any person can find a way to do something great under any government system. I wouldn't be one to say Canadians couldn't do something like this under their system.

All I said was donations weren't socialism.

No, they aren't. They're charity. That can exist under any nominally free system. The discovery was still made by a government agency though, using government resources in addition to those donations.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

As much as the difference between being a liberal and being a socialist, which is a distinction that also escapes far too many people.

socialist

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

socialist

For those times when 'liberal' isn't enough of an insult anymore

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

For those times when 'liberal' isn't enough of an insult anymore

Oh, don't make me call you a commie.