Stupid socialized medicine!

[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.