re the tories could win the lottery clinton gst phill hallam baker hallam zeus desy de writes gld cunixb cc columbia edu gary l dare writes cmk world std com charles m kozierok writes gld cunixb cc columbia edu gary l dare writes secondly any canadian who has worked and participates in the insurance it s a negative option you have to explicitly decline it knows that the premium is deducted separately yes and some americans actually have a problem with having more of their money taken from them to pay for others health care but note again the canadian and german health insurance is voluntary not true i am required to have insurance by law the method of collection effectively makes it a tax could it be because you re british phill and living in germany while the ec working rules are more liberal than what we have in the us canada fta there s probably a law about that having health insurance coverage is a condition of my being down here for example you have mentioned this once before yet both the ny times profile on the german sickness funds late jan and pamphlets that my girlfriend gives to her language students from the german consulate both say that it is voluntary okay there were quotation marks and that only of the population is covered by the sickness funds analogous to our provincial health insurances but not divided by province state another guy in health care policy says that the turkish guest workers aren t covered he s written to me a couple of times he s not a post er i ll ask him gld je me souviens gary l dare gld columbia edu go winnipeg jets go gld cunixc bitnet selanne domi stanley
