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[gfish]

Anyone who wants to see what is (as far as I can tell from my POV in Vancouver) a representative view of how Canadians view their healthcare compared to the US can read through the comments on this story.

And the really funny thing is, most Canadians have no idea how bad it can be in the States. They just don't quite get what it means to not have insurance, having grown up in a civilized country and thus never having faced that particular horror. Or, for that matter, the lesser-but-still-quite-nasty horror of being insured but not being sure how much it will cover until the surprise bill shows up a month later. Or knowing that they'll look for any excuse to drop you if you should ever really need the coverage. Or... blah. Pisses me off all over again just to think about it. I'm going to miss my BC MSP coverage.

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[corivax.livejournal.com]

We had Kaiser Permanente, which as I understand it was indeed an HMO 20 years ago, SO THERE. :) MyMOM has Uniform through UW now.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

My parents had an HMO of some type or another when I was v. small also, which was 20*mumble* years ago.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

They've existed since the Nixon administration, but they only became the standard option like they are today in the 90s, iirc.