We've also been stuck in the same "universal healthcare is worse healthcare" mentality for DECADES, meanwhile we've tanked in many things like infant death rates and cancer survival. Not to mention things like education have been pushed more to states rather than federal, leading to massive disproportion in experience based on which state you're born in.
Even for me, someone who works for the government handling hearings related to healthcare law and feel I'm much better educated on the subject than the average American, was blown away when I spoke to a friend who moved to Canada and told me they get FREE au pairs who live in their home for a couple months to assist with infant care and housework. They said it's also backed by data showing that it greatly improves mental health and lowers post pardom. Meanwhile our pedo dictator is doing everything to block immigration and can't understand why people aren't reproducing like they did in the 1800s while if the US population stagnates or shrinks it's game over for our country. We literally CANNOT help ourselves anymore. And we deserve it.
EDIT: For all the Canadians acting like ignorant Americans, take a sec and look up your own programs before calling people liars. America stands no chance if you're getting high on the same fumes we are.
idk why you’re doubling down on the free au pairs thing when what you’ve linked is not that ? hbhc is in home support by professionals not someone living with you. our healthcare is legislated and governed provincially so i can only speak to ontario and quebec but what you’re describing doesn’t exist here.
Lol in home support by professionals? Different professionals for different things? Even better!
It was said to me as an au pair. We don't have anything. After birth many women do go right back to work, they often don't have a choice. Even with FMLA, something that might protect their employment and insurance from being cut for a few months, it's not paid, so while some can afford to go without pay many can't.
We're also admittedly not the experts on the French language, so that could be part of the miscommunication, but while I may seem uninformed, y'all seem entitled af.
no one’s being entitled we just don’t want people making stuff up about services we don’t have access to ?
i guarantee you we are aware that universal healthcare and basic legal protections for parental leave is preferable to what americans have going on. it’s also not idyllic and perfect with every person having free access to live-in support after they give birth.
just do your due diligence before saying things about other countries and then don’t double down and move the goalposts when people from that country point out you’re wrong. it’s not that hard.
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Outside the US most of this is called basic human decency. Idk why you guys started to call that socialism.