Completely Conspicuous Episode 89: Doctor Doctor
Special guest Dev Sarathy joins me to talk about the pros and cons of the Canadian healthcare system.
Topics:
- In Canada, paying taxes = healthcare coverage
- Canadian taxes are extremely high
- Health insurance doesn't cover "natural health" services like chiropractic
- Quality of life vs. quantity of life
- Money isn't going into preventive healthcare/wellness
- Old man Kumar: No kids play outside anymore
- Dev's awesome impression of his dad
- Fat people are fatter nowadays
- Canadian delays: Three-month waiting period for MRIs
- Maybe a hybrid of the two systems would work
- Canadian system abused by trivial ER visits
- Dev would make more money in U.S. system
- Canadians aren't used to paying for health services
- Hard to roll out a national plan due to sheer size of U.S.
- Outsourcing is a serious problem
- Pinhead of the Week
Music:
- Lou Barlow - Gravitate
- Big Dipper - She's Fetching
- MSTRKRFT (feat. N.O.R.E.) - Bounce
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The Lou Barlow song is on the forthcoming album Goodnight Unknown; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/loubarlow. The Big Dipper song is on the box set Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology; find out more on http://www.myspace.com/bigdipperband. Both albums are on Merge Records. You can download the songs at http://www.mergerecords.com.
The MSTRKRFT song is on the album Bounce on Dim Mak Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/mstrkrft. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL; you can download the song at http://www.rcrdlbl.com.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.
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