Carrie MacKay

@mcuban Although our system is not perfect, if you have an emergency you are seen right away. Americans don't have to do things exactly like Canada, but you are the only major country who doesn't have some kind of Universal Healthcare.

Look up how and when Canada got there and how they budget and pay for it. Then ask how you would transition our system to their approach

@Greg_Costigan @StevenMCole2 @mcuban @DrDiGiorgio I love when Americans tell us how our health care system is working 🙄

@StevenMCole2 @mcuban @DrDiGiorgio Canada doesn’t work though

Mark, you are getting close to understanding why single payer cannot work. But I fundamentally disagree with the idea that we could ever just "know" costs well enough to make it work. Hayek was right about this. The relevant knowledge is too dispersed, too local, and too dynamic to ever be gathered and priced correctly by central planners. Take basketball. Imagine single payer basketball. The government is the only purchaser of basketball entertainment in all its forms. Fans are not allowed to just buy a ticket to the Mavs game. Instead, a central office decides who gets to attend and hands out tickets based on "need." The central planners also handle the TV deals, merchandising, concessions, and every other revenue stream. Everything goes through the government, with no out of pocket cost to any consumer. Now teams no longer compete for fans on price, experience, convenience, or innovation. They submit cost reports to Washington explaining what it allegedly costs to run a game. But here is the problem. If there is no market price for tickets, media rights, parking, merchandise, or concessions, how exactly do you decide what the game is worth? How do you decide what players should be paid? How do you know whether a courtside seat is underpriced, overpriced, or priced just right? You do not. You are guessing. So bureaucrats step in and decide the approved reimbursement for a regular season game, a playoff game, courtside access, halftime entertainment, parking, and concessions. What happens next? If the approved rates are too low, teams do not magically become leaner and more innovative. They cut where fans can feel it. Fewer games. Worse arenas. Less staff. Delayed upgrades. Lower quality. Longer waits. Less access. Maybe smaller market teams shut down altogether. If the approved rates are too high, you do not get efficiency either. You get lobbying. Every team hires consultants to prove that its fan base is poorer, sicker, more rural, more complex, or otherwise deserving of special payment adjustments. Soon the league is no longer about basketball. It is about coding, compliance, modifiers, subsidies, carveouts, and political influence. Teams make money not by pleasing fans, but by persuading Washington that their costs are uniquely deserving of reimbursement. And once government is the only buyer, there is no real price discovery left. There is only political bargaining disguised as pricing. The Knicks get one deal. Rural teams get another. Old arenas get subsidies. Favored constituencies get carveouts. Every interest group insists that without one more special adjustment the whole sport will collapse. Fans are told this is fair because nobody has to pay at the gate. But of course they still pay. They pay through taxes. They pay through rationing. They pay through fewer choices. They pay in lower quality. They pay by being told which arena they can use, which game they qualify for, and how long they have to wait. That is the key point. Knowing the accounting cost of hosting a basketball game does not tell you the right price of a ticket. Price is not cost. Price emerges from supply, demand, scarcity, quality, preference, and competition. A central planner can know what it "costs" to turn on the lights, pay security, and clean the arena. That still tells him nothing about what a seat is worth to fans, what kind of experience teams should offer, which franchises are efficient, or where new arenas should be built. Healthcare is even less suited to central planning than basketball. It is more heterogeneous, more personal, more local, and far more dependent on dispersed knowledge. The fantasy is always the same: if only the people at the top had better data, they could set the right prices. No, they could not. They would still be guessing, just with nicer spreadsheets.

@Brad604 You should be at home and watching WBC. I know Canada got knocked out but but let's cheer for Dominican Republic to beat ISA!🤷‍♀️

The calm before the storm here in Metro Vancouver. As this Pineapple Express type of Atmospheric River straight from Hawaii begins as Snow for many of us. It will quickly transition to rain around midnight as the warm tropical air rushes in. No risk of Freezing Rain or Sleet as temperatures are already right at or already above freezing. Burnaby, BC. #bcstorm #shareyourweather

@googiegirl @Brad604 You should take off that Blue Jays hat then, but you're probably not a real baseball fan anyway 😒

@Brad604 I go almost every weekend. Cheaper gas and groceries, plus fun things to do... why wouldnt someone go?

This rage bait question again... 🙄 Yes! Yes I would travel to the USA for a day trip or for vacation along the West Coast.

@BeautifulA99937 @yegwave @JackDan110 You need help if you think that is actually happening

@yegwave @JackDan110 It’s so so so EVIL people. They are even harvesting the maid peoples organs. Yea they are making money of their organs. It’s so messed up our country is so messed up. Canadian just go along with all of it.

🇨🇦 Officials report that Canada is on track to surpass 100,000 assisted suicides by early 2026, which would exceed the country’s total military fatalities in World War II.

@sharongabert @yegwave Then why don't you go home to your morally bankrupt president and leave Canada?

@yegwave Absolutely morally bankrupt country.

@s3rtake @vidsthatgohard Oh please tell tell me all the "babies" we have killed🙄

@vidsthatgohard no we also kill babies and transition children. all NA is satanic.

*4 months until the World Cup* USA: WW3 Mexico: Narcos drug lords Canada subplot:

@Wtfveth @vidsthatgohard Bot from the US pushing BS

@vidsthatgohard The government legally pushes you to do assisted suicide if you have mild depression lol

@charldpz @nembuIa Sure bot

@nembuIa Not a chance. Canaduhh is a shithole and the people are even worse. Besides Germans, Canadians are the worst people on the planet. They have no morals and no sportsmanship - it’s a pass on Canada.

The only country fit to host the World Cup in North America rn is Canada. Mexico is burning down & the United States isn’t travel friendly either. FIFA really fucked it this time.

@Nunya2868 @nembuIa That never happens in the US🙄

@nembuIa There was literally a mass shooter in canada like a week ago

@stephanicci @buffalorantings Not running the country and shitting in a diaper

@buffalorantings They have sex offenders in their own neighborhood they can take care of

When I’m trashing talking Canadians and they come back with how our president is a pedophile

@Austin2Jacobsen Your state is as cold as most of Canada. I live in Vancouver and we haven't even had snow this year🙄

Imagine your county is 90% frozen for three quarters of the year and losing in hockey to a country that has alligators in it

@KaliInTheSun @RodKahx Well it's the other side of the country so they should be fine.

According to family in the region, the cartels are moving north into Sinaloa.

@RedWave4EVR @OilersJack Sorry to disappoint you again, but I'm straight 🤷‍♀️and there is a whole rainbow of people out there. You're probably married to your cousin and your inbred spawn take the short bus to school .

@MacKayKada @OilersJack Your wife is black????Adopted kids? I know it’s not a black husband you know most blacks hate gays don’t ya?

Remember when Canada booed the USA National Anthem and the American players got pissed and responded by doing this. 🤯🤯🤯

@RedWave4EVR @OilersJack It's worst than you think, I'm in a mixed race marriage with mixed race children 😱 Please pray for me😜

@MacKayKada @OilersJack lol there it is the typical queer idiology. I hope you and your wife fly those pride flags high and mighty today cause you sure can’t fly that shitty Canadian flag high today! Find Jesus young lady good luck !!!

@RedWave4EVR @OilersJack You're a funny guy, but now I must go do what us crazy libs do on Sunday, like celebrate living in a free country, fly a rainbow flag and maybe head over to a nearby hospital for some free healthcare .And you do what you do on Sunday, go to church, yell racial slurs & go toKKK

@MacKayKada @OilersJack No he actually called the cops on Epstein. You know Epstein was a huge lib and donor to the Dems??? Come on now ! And I know Trump ain’t the best husband and ain’t perfect but he sure ain’t no Pedo! That’s the Clintons and Obamas!!

@RedWave4EVR @OilersJack Come on, you know Trump is losing his marbles and was best friends with Epstein. Anyway, I need to rest, I've been up since 5am watching Canada out play USA, but not being able to score😩

@MacKayKada @OilersJack lol no sorry hun that was Biden!!!!!! Your whole country is full of Pedo LGBTQ scum. I will say this at least you responded and you at least had a sense of humor unlike pretty much every other crazy lib!!

@RedWave4EVR @OilersJack You earned your crazy brag😩 I shall now cry away my sadness 😩 Thankful that Mark Carney is our Prime Minister (Trudeau has been gone for a year), and you have a pedo President who has dementia 🤷‍♀️

@MacKayKada @OilersJack Well my Lib friend Allan can say is 3 things too you. Jesus is Real! Woke is Dead! And USA is the best fkin hockey team in the world!!!!!!!! We own you!! Men’s and Woman’s! You guys still have Justin Truduea though lololol. I hope you didn’t block me

@vm8833 @PNWConservative @TeamCanada Tell me more bot from Hong Knog

@PNWConservative @TeamCanada Canada's team traded their integrity for a gold medal.

@suzannealma Old white lady says what??

Flights are always full..Canadians love the sunshine and the wonderful friends they’ve made there.