cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42020156
Can Canada create a food labeling system similar to this?
It’s confusing trying to buy Canadian with all the variations of made in, assembled in, grown in, packaged in, etc. Can we copy the Australian food labeling system, perhaps replacing the kangeroo with a maple leaf? I find this much clearer.
I keep seeing other countries say this. I don’t think you guys realize that we pay for healthcare with our taxes too, but it’s to pay back the Emergency Room visits by the poor because the hospital can’t turn you away. Of course, the hospitals then raise the rates for those to astronomical prices. It would be way cheaper to have universal healthcare.
I’m so glad there are places that have it and I hope you recover quickly.
A lot of the deficiencies with Australian health care are due to tight budget control. Insufficient staffing etc. Health care is expensive but I believe our government health care spending is less per person than the US despite having a more equitable system.
Some of the cost pressures on our system are likely due to increasing use of private services. You can feel the dream of universal health and education slipping away here as bits are carved off for the private sector.
That’s how they get you to switch to what the US has, slowly carve it away. I hope you hold onto it.
Universal healthcare is cheaper, but still not really free healthcare.
You’re right, it would be cheaper healthcare and we wouldn’t have bills come in on top of that. To the simple people who are voting against this, I will call it free healthcare.
Free (at point of use) is what people are meaning when they say that.
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I don’t want to disagree but we also pay for public television, like a mandatory netflix subscription. You could say it doesn’t cost anything to watch a show, just like it doesn’t cost anything to go to the doctor but it doesn’t feel fair to me to call them free services because they are not gifts or something like that. We also don’t have free highways, free pensions or free education. If everyone would consider them free things you have the right to use because you are a citizen people will probably complain a lot more about taxes than when this people consider themselves taxpayers who organised themselves to get things done for a fair price.
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If they say free public transport while it’s payed for by taxes than I’d say you’re right about healthcare being free as well. Glad we have different words to describe things that are freely available vs available at no extra cost vs actually free (like that discarded chair by the side of the road). Still feels disrespectful to me to call healthcare and education free tbh.
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Maybe I should expand my definition of free then. I know low cost is not the same as low value, but in my mind free is something that comes without giving anything in return. If something has high value, you’re not likely to give it away without getting something in return. So I think my opinion has to do with not appreciating something because you call it free, but I guess that’s just me.