Hold on a minute. This woman says she had a child with developmental disabilities and it drove her into poverty: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/poor-broke-difference-poverty-inequality-society … BUT SHE LIVES IN CANADA. I call bullshit. I lived in CA and they totally cover this so she must have been doing something weird.
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The Ontario Disability Support Program, in particular, has been regarded as woefully inadequate by poverty advocacy groups for as long as I can remember. And austerity-happy Conservatives were just elected, so it isn't getting better any time soon.https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/11/22/1655811/0/en/ISAC-responds-to-Minister-MacLeod-s-announcement-about-social-assistance-reform-Many-questions-few-answers-and-great-risk-for-people-with-disabilities.html …
Sarcasm doesn't really translate over twitter. I know that the whole myth of magical Canadian Health Care is bullshit. I was more pointing out that this article sort of shows how it's bullshit.
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Ah, ok. To be clear, I wouldn't trade it for a US-style system, and neither would the vast majority of Canadians. But it's far from perfect and under constant siege.
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