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We're a Hospital with full ER/OR (but not a trauma centre) coverage and a SNF.

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I'm not sure how Canada does it but Medicare only covers Skill Nursing Facility care and not nursing home care. In fact it is almost impossible to get coverage for nursing home care through private insurance. Does the Canadian government cover nursing home care?

It would be nice if the government would cover nursing home care but when is it the families responsibility to take care of relatives and when is it the government's responsibility? If the person is poor, then Medicaid will cover the care. It's a complex issue since someone could be in a nursing home for 10 years or more.

Medicare does cover hospice care if it is assumed that a person has 6 months or less to live. Hospice care is an option that a person can chose over hospitalization.

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No society could cover those sort of costs.

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In BC nursing home care and home care are subsidized by the government as part of the healthcare system. The cost varies based on income level.


All hospitals in BC are run by government funded health authorities, so all employees of the hospital work for whatever health authority is in charge of that region.

The nursing homes that are run by the health authorities are the same, the employees work for the health authority.

But like hospitals, public nursing homes, and public home care are subsidized by the government as part of the healthcare system and costs vary depending on service, some are free at point of service (hospital stays) and others pay a monthly rent (nursing homes) based on income. The charges generally for rent are inline for what someone would pay for rent if they still lived on their own though.

Healthcare accounts for about 42-43% of the entire provincial budget.

Here is a link to various public subsidized services available. (note we also have private companies providing these services, but they generally cater to the well off folks who have good money and don't want a public facility.)

http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page...E3F99B03F035C4

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I found this course about learning. How to learn. I might take it.

And I remembered this thread and Jsmth321. Check out this link:

https://www.class-central.com/report...-how-to-learn/

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Easy to say, but then you have to consider who is currently being supported and by how much. A little reallocation could perhaps be considered.

Average American Families Pays $6K a Year in Big Business Subsidies | Blog, We're Not Making This Up! | BillMoyers.com

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Oddly enough, the "dream" is part of the problem.


(Not quite safe for work -- a bit of profanity in that one.)

We might have better policies in this country if we would acknowledge that not everyone can be a winner, and that this reality can't be fixed by expecting employers to fix it. There's a certain segment of society that needs to be permanently subsidized, and we would be wiser if we would just admit it.

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The United States of America could if it didn't spend all their money of security:


The bloated defense budget which is nearly as large of the rest of the worlds combined. Interest on defense spending, military pensions, interest on military pensions, the secret black budgets, the National Intelligence Council [NIC], National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), National Counterintelligence Executive [NCIX], Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency (NSA), National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, National Security Council, DEA - Drug Enforcement Administration, NDIC - National Drug Intelligence Center, USNCB - U.S. National Central Bureau, INR - Bureau of Intelligence & Research, INL - Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, CT - Counterterrorism Office, DS -United States Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), United States Department of the Treasury Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Office of Intelligence Support, Office of the Under Secretary (Enforcement), United States Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI), Transportation Security Administration,Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms......And these are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head..

There are 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies working on intelligence, counterterrorism, or homeland security in the U.S.

What are they so afraid of again?

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TSA?

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First of all...direct assistance to Americans is a tiny fraction of the federal budget...Secondly, its their money.

How did they get people to complain about the tiny percentage of tax dollars coming back to people, and ignore the trillions being wasted/looted on things they don't need and benefit no one? HOW DID THEY DO THAT!?

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Its in there, but there are a couple hundred more that I couldn't remember..

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Yes, this everyone can be a winner thing makes no sense at all. Just a convenient cover for criticising minimum wage workers.

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People are gullible though since they listen to "motivational speakers" that claim everyone can make millions flipping houses, investing with a guaranteed high return, use investment tools that do everything for you, selling products that are based on pyramid schemes, etc. but in reality, the only one's that make money are the motivational speakers that are selling the "how to" products.

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Is that how we figure out how people get paid? I thought it was money generated? And I dare say that a single McDonalds worker generates more money a day than most of you do in a day, and they deserve their fair share of it. America lets McDonalds come into their communities, exploit their children, poison everybody, and run off with all the money..

Some university conducted a study wich revealed that if McDonalds doubled their wages from $7 to $15 an hour in a America a big Mac would go up by something like .60 cents (If I remember correctly) and the price of Dollar menu items like my favorite the plain double cheeseburger would go up by just .17 cents...I'm willing to pay a few more pennies for my plain double cheeseburger in order to have 7 more dollars per hour, per employee stay in my community. And every dime of it would be spent in my community in the form of goods and services instead of being plowed into foreign, tax sheltered, off shore accounts of billionaires...

You see, America has a demand issue. Currently corporate America is meeting all of American consumer demands. They are sitting on trillions of dollars and when demand increases, they'll invest some of that money, and create the jobs required to meet it. Thats how jobs are created, they aren't just created out of thin air and for no reason. Its called Supply and Demand

America needs MORE MONEY in the pockets of PEOPLE that will spend it.

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Ha ha when I was dealing with book donations at the library, it was truly amazing how many of those type were dropped off.