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implement the full Earth in the Balance platform.) Yet Albanian life expectancy is closing in on America’s, and even Canada’s: These old guys are indestructible. Nonetheless, I understand the urgent need to improve life expectancy in the U.S. God forbid any of the codgers should kick off halfway through Gore’s second term, before they’ve had a chance to vote for Hillary in 2008.

Canadians, for their part, tend to fret about the 40 million Americans without health insurance. The vast bulk of these tend to be healthy youngsters in their first jobs; if you’re a 19-year-old waitress, having no medical coverage is a very sound bet. As to those pills, one reason they cost more down here is because if Granny Winnie’s a little short of breath from a hard day’s can-collecting and gets one of the tablets stuck in her throat, she can sue the pharmaceutical companies into oblivion for making them too big. You can’t do that in Canada. That’s another reason why even those drugs not covered by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board cost half the price in Canada that they do in America.

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implement the full Earth in the Balance platform.) Yet Albanian life expectancy is closing in on America’s, and even Canada’s: These old guys are indestructible. Nonetheless, I understand the urgent need to improve life expectancy in the U.S. God forbid any of the codgers should kick off halfway through Gore’s second term, before they’ve had a chance to vote for Hillary in 2008.

Canadians, for their part, tend to fret about the 40 million Americans without health insurance. The vast bulk of these tend to be healthy youngsters in their first jobs; if you’re a 19-year-old waitress, having no medical coverage is a very sound bet. As to those pills, one reason they cost more down here is because if Granny Winnie’s a little short of breath from a hard day’s can-collecting and gets one of the tablets stuck in her throat, she can sue the pharmaceutical companies into oblivion for making them too big. You can’t do that in Canada. That’s another reason why even those drugs not covered by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board cost half the price in Canada that they do in America.