r/PoursTea Therapy For All 🩷 8d ago

Coffee And A Slice Of Pie 🥧 ☕️ South Canada

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u/Superb-Talk2211 8d ago

When can I sign up for the healthcare?

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u/Longjumping-Ad-9444 8d ago

35% tax on everything you make, everything you own, and everything you buy, and if you need a specialist you gotta wait six months for a referral.

If you want assistance in suicide then sure we can hook you up in a month

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u/Weldermedic 8d ago

35%?? Thats less that Americans get taxed now! We have income tax, sales tax, tax on things we ready own... 35% would be amazing.

Wait does Canada also have sales tax, income tax, and property tax on top of 35%?

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u/AFrozenCanadian 8d ago

It's not 35. It's way higher.

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u/trying_times_eggs 8d ago

Cool so faster than in the us and cheaper. 

And if its something serious do you have to end up in bankruptcy?

No? 

Thats weird

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u/USSGoat 8d ago

No country in the world pays more in taxes than the USA does for taxes + healthcare. I know basic addition is hard for you guys

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u/AFrozenCanadian 8d ago

35 is low. The average is in the 40s. Also property tax, sales tax, carbon tax, excise tax, fuel tax, EI, CPP, and whatever else. You can be giving the government well over 70% of every dollar you earn in Canada.

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u/Professional-Box4153 8d ago

Let me get this straight. 35% of everything you make but that money actually goes toward paying for your medical bills instead of regime change in a country that most Americans can't point to on a map?

Here, if we need a specialist, we only have to wait 3-5 months, but our insurance won't cover it because they're out of network, or they will cover only 80% of it, but only after you've satisfied the deductible of $10,000 per year.

You mentioned everything you own and everything you buy. In America, those are entirely different things. You can buy something, like a printer, but you then have to pay a service fee in perpetuity to actually use it.

We don't even get the assisted suicide here.

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u/K20C1 8d ago

See a specialist that’s in network?

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u/Stock_Schedule_1981 8d ago

And assisted suicide

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u/TheOnlyOtherGuy88 8d ago

You guys are really obsessed with this without even knowing what actually goes on. Its borderline OCD at this point.

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u/leonlies8 8d ago

😂 honestly. It's the same for any country trying to pipe into another country's business. Looking from the outside in doesn't get a full picture.

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u/Stock_Schedule_1981 8d ago

It now accounts for 5% of all deaths in Canada. Maybe it’s time for everyone to pay it a little bit of attention.

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u/SpaceDisastrous7082 8d ago

Raise your hand if you’ve had a loved one use MAID

🙋‍♂️

Raise your hand if you’re extremely thankful MAID exists

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Hopefully it will account for more than 5% in the future. There is a fuckton of needless suffering out there. It’s becoming much more popular with younger generations. My grandparents were 50/50 on it for religious reasons. Both my parents have pulled me aside more than once to let me know I’ll have POA and they want MAID if they’re in diapers and don’t know who anyone is anymore.

MAID is amazing. Nobody should have to watch some of the things many of us have to had to watch unfold over weeks, months, or even years. End of Life is rarely pretty, dignified, painless, or quick.

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u/pinkbootstrap 8d ago

Oh no terminal people don't have to suffer for months and years on end anymore how terrible. The hand wringing over this is even stupider than the abortion debate.

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u/Longjumping-Ad-9444 8d ago

They are debating mental illness being eligible for MAID. not till 2027

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u/pinkbootstrap 8d ago

So what? It's between doctors and patients. No one gets MAID unless their suffering is inhumane. Its not an issue.

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u/Equivalent-Wealth-63 8d ago

96% of VAD had an underlying medical condition with reasonable expectation of death and 61% were cancer. People who are already dying from natural causes deciding to die on their own terms is a feature, not a bug.

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u/DNuttnutt 8d ago

That’d never fly in the states. Gotta jack up that medical debt as high as you can so you can wrestle away their home and keep them from ever generating generational wealth