Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

Post by brianwawok » Wed, Nov 09, 2016, 8:30 PM UTC

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US median individual wage is $39K/yr for males and $26.5K/yr for females [1]. That amounts to an after-total-tax (for a California resident) of $28K/yr for males and $19K/yr for females. Average rent ranges from $500-$3600/mth though for illustrative purposes (taking into account people in expensive places share) let's use $1K/mth for our hypothetical person. [3] That leaves you with $16K/yr (male) and $7K/yr (female…

But with such a low income you will receive either a Medi-Cal which is almost free or a substantial government subsidy to pay for your health plan.

Post by freeone3000 » Wed, Nov 09, 2016, 8:40 PM UTC

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If it happens once every 8 years I can understand that the wouldn't care much. Do you expect them to employ expensive services that would cost them a lot of money to stop that just for one day? It's government, they just live with it.

I've worked in government before and understand bureaucracy but there's a certain level of quality even they have standards for. Most government sites aren't massive volume transactions but primarily static brochure type sites that may need some occasional updates making them suitable for many commercial CMSes that are well known and easy to optimize. Adding caching for documents that are almost never updated and add…

Post by miguelrochefort » Wed, Nov 09, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

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60k CAD

It is definitely not 60K. I made more than that way back when I was a new grad.

Post by theandrewbailey » Wed, Nov 09, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

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A few points I think are relevant: - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet... - as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems - having just aquired my canadian p…

They're not leaving the country. Their country left them.

Post by mattkrause » Wed, Nov 09, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

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To give you an example - my dad had to take 2 boxes of Glivec per month to keep him alive(he was predicted to survive 3-6 months, thanks to Glivec he lived another 8 years). Glivec, last time I checked, is currently 12 thousand dollars a box in US. And sure, most health insurance in US would cover most of that. But if you have to take two $12k boxes per month, and insurer says they will cover $10k per box, you sudden…

As a fairly young US citizen I'm curious, I thought that most health care plans have an out of pocket maximum that is usually in the low to mid thousands per year. Would this situation not be one that limits the yearly cost that way?