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2名华裔妇女坐宝马领食物卡掀起热议
本帖最后由 Xin Ru Rong 于 2014-1-4 10:51 编辑
"for those who can’t afford to replace food they lost" Only!
Shame on those two ladies. There are stories happened every day in my pharmacy. Many new immigrants (>65 years old) refused to pay co-payment or deductible and take it for granted "Why I need to pay deductible? I am more than 65 years old"???!!!! Some immigrants advisors told everybody "You will get everything for free after your land in Canada"?? This is not true! Who pay for it? The governement introduced the deductible ($100/year) and co-payment in order to keep this health care substainable. Most of time, I explained to them patiently and nicely, for some customers, I would like to ask "Why you don't need to pay, did you pay any taxes?" The answer will be"no, I just landed and I am more than >65 years old". They don't want to pay anything, please remember, health care money is used to save life, if you need to pay, you need to pay. Or our hard working taxpayer will not have chance to get this fantastic health care services in the future. Or the government will increase the tax. How far we can go, we pay more than half of our income as tax (35-42% plus 13% HST) every year already. |
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