NFRC: well, my youngest daughter is now a Canuck. What's a mother to do :)

Vancouver (Kits). She's been there 5 years and spent the last 2 years filing paperwork

(and re-filing when they lost it). It's the perfect place for a girl who plays hockey, skiis, snowboards, rapels, boulders, and anything else where you get to throw yourself off a mountain smileys/smile.gif

I've been to visit and am going up again in two weeks. I love Vancouver and the people there. Great Indian food, too smileys/smile.gif

 
I've heard this lots of times Marg...but wanted to ask, can you purchase your own healthcare

supplement say from Blue Shield/Blue Cross, Anthem or other companies?

 
That depends. You can purchase it but it is to cover what the provincial insurance does not.

Eyeglasses, prescriptions, etc. It is not, however, for surgeries that would normally be available through the gov't plan but for which one must wait forever and occasionally to death. There is a great deal of brouhaha over whether people should actually be allowed to buy their own surgeries privately here, at private clinics, at FULL FULL prices, when they want it. Even that is doubtful...I think some provinces allow it, others do not. The ideology being, just because you have money you should not be able to get what other people have to wait for. So people just go to the USA to get what they need.

My husband actually died in 2003 but was snapped back to life with the paddles. He then had to wait 4 months in bed for surgery.

I actually carried on with my capitalistic rant (having paid taxes personally in this country for 50 years, as high as 46% and with a family that has been here for 250 years) which I have now deleted. There is legislation tabled now, on whether refugees should qualify for immediate and full coverage.

Improvement in the health system is the second highest priority for Canadians.

 
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