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obamacare microchip
Is there any truth to what my friend says about the plan under obamacare to chip us all like lost dogs? She seems really convinced but when I ask her for proof things get weird. I believe she thinks it is true, but before I do what she wants me to do (help her move to Canada) I want to know more. You who live down there care to shed any light on this whole thing?
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Canada has a single payer health care system, run by the government. People are free to buy additional insurance and most people do have additional insurance through their job, but all citizens are guaranteed a basic level of care, including emergency care. It's a more liberal, more progressive system than Obamacare, with a great deal more government involvement and oversight. And by and large, Canadians love it.
If your friend doesn't want the government involved in her health insurance, Canada isn't the right place to be. The fact she doesn't know that is a reflection of just how poorly informed she is on these subjects.
In fact, there are virtually no first world, developed nations she can move too if she doesn't want the government involved in the health care market. The US stands virtually alone in the rabid opposition to comprehensive socialized medicine. Every other nation in the G20 has AT LEAST an insurance mandate, and most have a single payer system, or a two-tiered system, with the government being a main provider of health insurance.
Unfortunately, your friend probably isn't too interested in facts and I doubt she has any real plan to move to Canada. Once you descend to believing such nonsense as microchipping, you aren't being rational or living in a fact-based world. Of course there is no truth to that! It would be blatantly illegal in a dozen ways, it couldn't possibly be hidden from the millions of people who would be in a position to know about it, and no one would stand for it. If it were ever considered seriously by anyone in power you'd have another whistle blower like Snowdon in a heartbeat.
However, the reason these beliefs persist is because they cannot be disproven to the satisfaction of people like your friend. I can't prove to her there isn't a microchip in her body. I also can't PROVE to her that Jurassic Park wasn't a documentary about a real island full of dinosaurs. All I can do is show her all the mountains of evidence that those ideas are absurd. The best thing you can do for your friend is listen, and try to figure out what is contributing to her fear and anxiety. Attacking her absurd microchip belief isn't going to get you very far, but asking about the real anxieties in her life may actually help her addressing them.
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