please tell me i'm not the only one.

There's health care in the USA.

Here you either pay for it when you need it or get an employer to pay for you, or accept the limited care the government hands out.

In Canada you pay for it with your taxes and accept the limited care the government hands out.

I don't see much benefit of theirs over ours.

Actually, you can get additional health care here in similar ways to the US: through where you're employed, where you're going to school, or you can pay for "better" types of health care beyond the standard provincial health care, which is there so even if you're absolutely dirt poor, you still have access to health care if you are a citizen of that province.

I keep my mouth shut on a lot of posts here but, THIS is where I draw the line!!!

If you think that there is a better country than America, you should definitely go there, as fast as you can. Don't let the door hit you in the *kitten*.

I'm not even going to get into the nationalized healthcare debate ... take it from someone who worked in the healthcare industry for 17 years ... If you think that ANYONE in America goes without proper healthcare ... YOU'RE WRONG!

Hope that you have a save trip and good luck with that.

The answer is not to get out of the country. The solution to the problem is to take a stand, get active in politics, vote, DO SOMETHING to better the country.

funny thing is i do. i vote and i've gone to a couple city council meetings. and i went to the gulf to help clean up the oil spill. i do clean up projects for my city and i have gone to 18 protests. i recycle and i rescue abandoned animals. i make differences here and there but nothing that can make a sufficient change to the government.

I hope you enjoy Canada... It isn't uncommon for your generation to not appreciate the gifts this country has to offer. Just the fact that you can speak negatively of your country without consequence is a gift provided to you by the very country you speak poorly of - ironic...

except the fact that they're passing a bill to censor any negative comments about said government. freedom of speech ftw.

I would love to see your reputable source of information...

try searching SOPA. it's mainly to shut down any websites that use links to other websites or any information that isn't genuinesly theirs but they've already started censoring anything to do with OWS on twitter. any talk about meeting up to protest is not allowed to be published or it's deleted.

that's the response I expected... try researching yourself not just blindly believing a bunch of banter about a subject from the viewpoint of who know who. find the bill you said "they" were in "fact" passing and read it for yourself... Don't be a sheep.

I'm an american and I've been living in Korea for about a year and a half. It's been good to me.

Came here to work, but it looks like I'll be moving around a good amount instead of going home soon.

Just saying.

Obama already made a deal with canada, allowing them to "take back" any americans who run there! (just look it up)

At first I wanted to pack up my family and move to england...But then I realized that life is short and no matter what we are all going to die, at any second our lives can be taken away! So why should I waste the little time that I have worrying about something that hasn't even happened yet...even if it does who knows if I'll be around to see it! My heart is still beating for a reason, weither it's God or the universe or whatever, for some reason I have been given This life and I am going to cherish and make the most of every second/breath I have! idk, that's the way I see it.

Bobby, sad to hear that you are that illusioned about politics. I agree most of them are greedy, selfish, power hungry people but it is up to us to change that, or at least make it better. If "we the people" do not vote and make a stand in whatever we believe in, one day we may not have that option. Wouldnt it be horrid if we were told what career path we would take because the governement needed more workers in that occupation. Or if you are religious, you had to hide in a dark basement to practice your religion or be thrown in jail or even killed by the government? You do realize that is happeing in the world tonight as we post this!
You have your freedom to feel however you wish, but the involvement of a lot of brave, involved people gave you that right and allow us to keep that right. Lets not give up !

I'm somewhat tempted to jump ship to Canada.
On the other hand it feels wrong to just give up instead of fight to make things better here.

i've been contemplating canada. but the way things are turning out - it seems to me like OWS protesters are going to start being beaten or arrested for trying to change anything. the same thing going on in syria and what happened in egypt this past january. and they've BEEN fighting to no avail.

You do realize the Occupy people are breaking THOUSANDS of laws not the least of which is tresspassing and destruction of propery.. they have been asked to leave hundreds of times. They are lucky they are just getting tear gassed and arrested. They are PART of the problem.. not the solution.

I'm guessing you don't vote, so you're not voicing your opinion...

OWS, is at least doing something about it. why dont you take into consideration the 1% who get tax cuts for having a plane. Or killing the 99%. OWS are the people who lost their homes,have no food to put on the table, students, the unemployed,etc. At least they are standing up and trying to do something instead of just complaining. If you want to know I was registered to vote since 2007 the year I turned 18.

*Sorry for the typos

Wow, poor girl was only stating her feeling of disallution (sp?) with the government and her feeling like she wanted to live elsewhere. Whether it's just a knee-jerk reaction to something she read, or something she has thought about for a while, it's her decision to make. Some of the comments directed at her were just nasty. Come on people, just because someone does not feel the same as you, or see an issue the same way, does NOT give you the right to be so snotty.

Okay, but is there any place actually better?
1. While clashes continue in the centre of Cairo, Egypt is headed towards a major financial and economic crisis.At the moment, there is a government with little control and no sense of direction. Meanwhile, there is a degree of chaos, with a rash of strikes, including one even by the police force.
2. Demonstrations have spread across a swath of the Middle East and Africa.Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, civilian protests and revolts have erupted as people’s frustrations with their conditions appear to have boiled over.
3. Great Britain and other parts of the world are experiencing unrest at a time of global economic uncertainty and stock market volatility.
4.Some 250,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday over the rising cost of living. Demonstrations actually began last month when a few people set up tents in an expensive part of Tel Aviv to protest rising property prices.
5. Spain, Greece , Portugal All three of these European Union nations have experienced protests and rioting in reaction to government austerity programs and bad economic conditions.
6.The Philippines Thousand of workers took to the streets throughout the country in May of this year to march for higher pay. They demanded better wages in light of rising inflation, including higher oil prices.
6. China Nearly 1,000 cab drivers in eastern China blocked traffic and protested rising fuel costs. It was the latest sign of discontent about the country's surging inflation. Inflation is hitting China hard, with food prices recently increasing 12 percent
7. MEXICO CITY - Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents.Mob murders doubled, taking more than 5,300 lives last year. Businesses have closed because they can't afford to pay monthly extortion fees to local thugs.
8. A couple of years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the healthcare system violates Quebec’s charter of rights because it collects taxes, promises healthcare in return, forbids competing suppliers and then often doesn’t deliver the care. Canada-wide average wait times for surgery is 17.8 weeks, though in Saskatchewan, wait times for hip replacements are as long as a year and a half. That’s after a physician has ordered the surgery. Getting to see a physician in the first place is very difficult. Family physicians are the gatekeepers of the health care system. Patients cannot obtain access to specialist services without having a general practitioner referral. The doctor shortage is so severe now that doctors have begun resorting to lotteries to kick people off their patient rostersThe Canadian health care system resembles a county hospital. Our patients pay little or nothing. They wait three months for an elective MRI scan and a couple of months to get into a subspecialty clinic


Oh yea, I want to move right now!!! Obama's term will end on 1/20/2013. I'm willing to wait to see what the next Commander In Chief does for our country before jumping ship.