Comments on: Health Care http://followingedge.com/blog/2004/09/health-care/ Observations on technology, family, farm and life by Michael Moore and family. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:22:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Chris http://followingedge.com/blog/2004/09/health-care/#comment-36 Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:47:42 +0000 http://followingedge.com/blog/2004/09/health-care/#comment-36 This reminds me of an <a href="http://www.baylor.edu/pr/index.php?id=18490">article</a> I recently read about a former employer of mine that has moved 200 jobs from Beaverton to British Columbia. Stream International is a technical support outsource provider (or as my girlfriend put it “a modern sweatshop”) with locations throughout the U.S. and indeed internationally. Stream cited the lower cost of doing business in Canada, which might surprise folks conditioned by the right-wing media to think that ‘socialist’ Canada is a poor business environment. “Canada's nationalized health system also provides a huge cost-saving tool for employers,” states an economics professor quoted in an article about the move. I hope that someday our business leaders realize that nationalized healthcare will actually lift the burden of high insurance costs from business and isn’t part of some communist plot. This reminds me of an article I recently read about a former employer of mine that has moved 200 jobs from Beaverton to British Columbia. Stream International is a technical support outsource provider (or as my girlfriend put it “a modern sweatshop”) with locations throughout the U.S. and indeed internationally. Stream cited the lower cost of doing business in Canada, which might surprise folks conditioned by the right-wing media to think that ‘socialist’ Canada is a poor business environment.

“Canada's nationalized health system also provides a huge cost-saving tool for employers,” states an economics professor quoted in an article about the move. I hope that someday our business leaders realize that nationalized healthcare will actually lift the burden of high insurance costs from business and isn’t part of some communist plot.

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