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Originally Posted by cementor
Each country is unique in its approach, but at the end of the day there is no free lunch.
Most of the Canadians who post here extoll the virtues of their system. They would appear to be in the monority of their countrymen from the poll taken and quoted herein. It states that 59% have major concerns regarding the sytem and fell it is currently in need of major overhaul.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-613.pdf |
Wow. I don't even have to look at the poll to tell you that it is going to be skewed. It's coming from a libertarian think tank... The Cato Institute (and yes, I skimmed it and it is full of the usual conservative boogey men).
I don't think you will have any Canadians that are not concerned about the health care system in Canada. We all are concerned about tweaking it to make it better. I think if you were to ask Canadians if they wanted to scrap Universal health care... the overwhelming majority would say no. We have seen what private health care looks like and it isn't pretty.
As for no free lunch... you really don't get how it works. Of course there is no free lunch. The single payer system that Canada uses (actually it's closer to 10 payers as each province decides runs its own health care system, mandated by federal law). Health care is run by doctors and hospitals. It is paid for by the single government payer. Costs are kept low largely by reducing administration fees that are clogging the US system.
It is a fact that we pay less for health care per capita in Canada and offer 100% coverage.
Is it perfect? No. Is the US system perfect? Fuck no.
No system is perfect but cheaper and more efficient as ours is, seems to point in a good direction.
Frankly, I don't care what the US does. The only thing I care about is how your politicians and lobbiest keep dragging us into your shit storm, going even as far as trying to change our public policy.
Keep your f'n noses out of our health care.
