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have adequate supplementary

heaith insurance.

“The trip to save $10 or $20
could turn into bankruptcy.”’

The B.C. Medical Services Plan
will pay for the health care you
receive outside this province, but
they pay only what the care would
have cost if you had been treated
here.

So, without unlimited  sup-
plementary insurance, Canadians
who have health-related problems
while visiting the U.S. can be fac-
ed with large hospital bills.

‘Those without will soon
discover the fundamental  dif-
ference between the two systems.
In the U.S. a medical bill looks
tike a grocery bili; they charge for
everything.””

The difference in health care
systems aside, Schreck said that
Canadians tempted to avoid our

high taxes should remember what’

those taxes pay for.

Canada has a much more ex-
tensive social safety net that in-
cludes unemployment insurance,
welfare, old age pension and the
Canada Pension Plan, he said.

One of the biggest catalysts
named for cross-border shopping
is the gasoline tax. But Schreck
said that tax goes to supporting
our highway system and the alter-

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native is raising the tax dollars
elsewhere.

He added that that is what
happens in parts of the U.S.
where the highway-maintenance
tax is on the car registration or
licence plate.

“No matter what the social
benefits — how we finarce our
health care, roads and public
transit — what is good for us col-
lectively is not necessarily good
for the individual.’’

Cross-border shoppers are not
considering the whole of Canada,
he said.

“It is incumbent on all levels of
government to institute policy
changes to encourage: people to
shop at home. “Our government

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try to address the problem.”’

Although the details have yet to
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He believes that the government
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