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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)"the "Care Card" is the same for all, regardless of circumstance."
That means that if a person is shit out of luck homeless, has heavy duty social problems, and yet community outreach can communicate and guide them to medical care, they'll get it. Community outreach is somewhat synchronized with trained medical practitioners whose only priority is helping people get and stay well. If they don't have the card, a card will be produced along with other Canadian identification papers that guarantee basic rights.
This has no resemblance to the US ACA. They are different kinds of things.
The *only* pro-ACA argument that I consider valid is the argument that it allows individual states to institute universal health care plans, if they so choose. Perhaps too little has been said about this. Universal health care in Canada happened that way, the germs of which were first (consequentially) sowed by a socialist oriented provincial gov't in Saskatchewan. But it wasn't just that. In fact Canada was blessed by a socialist/liberal leaning culture at the time, and a massive and substantial group of Canadians rallied to the patriotic call of UN Peacekeeping missions (as international outreach) and so on in that leftist/socialist vein.