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I'm from Canada, we have free universal health care that means free for all. Of...

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I'm from Canada, we have free universal health care that means free for all. Of course when we travel we must take an insurance to cover the difference in the cost in Canada and the cost abroad.
We have also in Quebec obligatory medication insurance. If you work, you have collective medication insurance that is paid by the employer and the employee. Then we pay the deductible and amount of $250.00 a year. If you don't work there is a Government medication insurance that we pay in proportion of our income, when we do our income tax return. So if you are low-income family you pay very little if any.

Now when I was diagnosed with an illness and I required medication at the rate of $5,000 a month. All I paid was $250.00 a year.

To be able to provide this, the population collectively has to pay. So I made a ruff calculation and we pay about 65% of our salary in income tax and various taxes when we buy good.

We have free education till university, even university are subsidised and we have free healthcare, free dietician and free medications. Even glasses and dentists are provided for underprivileged.

As for School nutrition, there is no junk food in the schools and most of the menus in High School are nutritious, if there is meal like hamburgers and fries they are more expensive that the nutritious food, they take the profit to buy fruits and vegetable so they can provide at a lower cost.

The learning of nutritious food should be at the pre school level. My three kids when to a primary school that had a lunch program, no junk food in the lunch boxes aloud, if they had a well balance meal they had a star and at the end of the week if they had 5 stars they had a diploma. They learn academics and healthy eating. And none of them are obese today 22, 24 and 28 they exercise every day and eat well. It took a common front to reach this, government and personal implication.

How much of exercise is required, I sent my kids to private high school, that they had an hour of obligatory exercise every day. The budget should be transferred to school, this way the health care would be less taxed with all the obese, diabetic, high blood pressure"026 etc patients.

There is still a lot to do to change the eating habits of North American. But I think that we all have a part to do including the governments.

I don't think this will happen in the USA. The personal rights will always over rule the collectively well being.

Multinationals are very strong in lobbing at the white house, to stop any legislation that would help the Americans to have better eating habits. Who is really infringing in your personal rights.View Thread

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