Not being able to see Super Bowl commercials is a small price to pay for free health care, amirite?

I don't get it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Canadians don't get to see the Superbowl commercials.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They'll be on YouTube tomorrow. Not to worry.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not free!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fine. Affordable for everybody, regardless of income.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is no such thing as free

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fine. Affordable for everybody, regardless of income.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think I would rather just choose my own health care provider that doesn't force me to pay another person's bills, you know free market and all that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Social contract.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

what does that response even mean? I am aware of what the social contract is but what do you mean using it in this context?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You pay in, the government gives back.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that would be fine if the government didn't force you to pay in.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't. That would prevent wealthy people from paying in. Also, you could probably start paying in at any time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

well that's were all those regulations come in that such a government loves so much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Without government regulations, public education would suck and the air and water would be polluted beyond reason.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

while I do agree with you about the environmental aspect education is quite the opposite. no educational regulations would mean that schools would have to compete, that's why private schools are far superior to public schools.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not necessarily. I've been to a bad private school. This was a school where everybody in middle school learned the same stuff in English. After that, I went to a public school and the public school students were being challenged more than private school students. However, I do believe that we should do what they do in Belgium and have a voucher system.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I am not familiar with Belgium's voucher system, what exactly is it?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Basically, you get one voucher per child. Rather than sending your children to a school based on where you live, you send your children to whatever school you want to. Therefore, competition drives success without it being a burden on the customer's wallet.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that system does make a lot of sense, it could work very well. but it seems as though if you can just choose any school then the best schools would just all be filled. does it go on first come first served basis? or does the child's ability decide their admission perhaps?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Better schools.get more funding.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But how is admission into the schools handled?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

However, here's my hypothesis: The schools use money from vouchers to hire more teachers anf build more buildings. Some might bee exclusive and a few are religious.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*be damn Swype

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Could be, be you can only make a school so big before it just becomes too big. Perhaps they use a system similar to charter schools in the US and when they have to many students signing up they raffle off the last few positions they have.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, my public school had over 1000 graduating seniors in 2009 and it was decent, but I could see schools becoming overpopulated.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my school was overpopulated a couple of years ago, most core classes had about 40 kids in them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sounds to me like they need to make more schools. It's becoming somewhat of a problem in the Tulsa area.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yeah they built another school in the area to take some of the students, the problem with that was that they spent so much money on that school that the other schools in the district had to cut several programs. so since we have fewer classes now we still have over filled classes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why not?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you meant tax-payer funded healthcare.

by Anonymous 12 years ago