After our trip this holiday season, I finally figured out some things about our neighbours to the south.
1) They think that Canada is so freaking cold all the time because we talk in Celsius and they hear in Fahrenheit. No wonder when we say that it's usually in the 30's in the summer time they think that it's cold!
2) How lucky I feel to be a Canadian. This feeling usually overwhelms me after there has been talk about health care. One person was saying that after a 24 hour stay in a hospital their daughter got a bill for 30 k $. That just blows my mind.
I love traveling if only to meet people from different places and learn what their perspectives are.
Universal healthcare! Only one of the things that makes Canada one of the greatest countries in the world. The best country for immigrants, that is for sure.
ReplyDeleteUniversal healthcare is one of the best things about being in this country. Val talks to a lot of Americans on the pregnancy message boards, and it's amazing the things they have to pay for. One girl was really freaked out because she got pregnant again, and had just switch insurance companies. Apparently they don't cover anything for the first year or something because it's classified as an existing condition. Luckily the laws have changed, although just recently, to get pregnancy removed from the list of "existing conditions".
ReplyDeleteThat's really messed up.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, I wonder how much stress (and therefore health care costs) we are saving just not having to worry about that.
It's good to be Canadian. :-D
Why am I proud to be Canadian? Watch this.
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