A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government

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A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government
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This won't work in the US because we NEED some sort of national health care system first.

We'll be shoveling money into medical debt even with UBI.

While I agree with you overall, it's not like it would be a bad thing if a whole bunch of folks who currently choose between healthcare and eating could start choosing both.

The health care system in Canada isn’t that great right now. There is a huge shortage of doctors. You have to get prescriptions diagnosed and filled from the pharmacist and they are moving people into urgent care (you don’t see a doctor you see a nurse) as there is no doctors. the best you can hope for is you’re not in a situation where where you’re looked at by spiteful nursing staff who determine if you’re allowed to live. Or that you’re not in a hole between antibiotics where you’re hoping you can live long enough that someone will see you before the sepsis takes you.

Every single one of those things is also true in the US. After factoring cost, Canada still wins.

And what's the end game point here? You win the shit Olympics? Then have at it. Meanwhile it still needs fixing regardless how you feel about it.

No... I'm pretty sure the point was that Canada is still doing something right.

That's your perspective. The underpriveged who are getting assisted suicide because the system left them behind would disagree if they were still alive.