Posted on 06/18/2009 7:48:10 PM PDT by Libloather
Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits
By DAVID GRATZER
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:30 PM PT
As this presidential campaign continues, the candidates' comments about health care will continue to include stories of their own experiences and anecdotes of people across the country: the uninsured woman in Ohio, the diabetic in Detroit, the overworked doctor in Orlando, to name a few.
But no one will mention Claude Castonguay — perhaps not surprising because this statesman isn't an American and hasn't held office in over three decades.
Castonguay's evolving view of Canadian health care, however, should weigh heavily on how the candidates think about the issue in this country.
Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies.
The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker: "the father of Quebec medicare." Even this title seems modest; Castonguay's work triggered a domino effect across the country, until eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast.
Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in "crisis."
"We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."
Castonguay advocates contracting out services to the private sector, going so far as suggesting that public hospitals rent space during off-hours to entrepreneurial doctors.
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Common sense bump
Little bit confused are we? Maybe you should see a gubbermint psychiatrist and get your head clear.
Think of all the people who paid for this clown’s narcissism with their lives...I hope he a Robert McNamara get to spend eternity together...
.I hope he AND Robert McNamara....
I have recently learned a better term —Anarcho-capitalism.
And yes, while capitalism provides more and better jobs than alternatives, the reality is that one’s attachment to it as a a system can be broken when it is perceived to be overtly unfair or that the game is rigged.
parsy, who is learning new words all the time.
There is a reason for that....there aren’t ANY! Don’t stop fighting people do not let them decide who lives and who dies.
“Everyone associated with the president is a fool”
That makes him the King of the fools literally!
Only in that Norwalk is in Ohio and apparently Norwalk, Ontario is in Wisconsin USA .
Maybe you should talk to Gratzer . You could help him with his geography. He , your spelling.
But only if you don't bother to carry the thought out far enough to consider that socialist and communist systems are far more certain to be overtly unfair and rigged to the core than capitalism. After-all their whole reason for being is to socially engineer the outcome.
When people get p*ssed, they don’t give a hoot sometimes. Thats what the American Revolution was about. We left the ambit of England, which was a pretty free and liberal nation at the time because we were p*ssed. We jumped into a system that had never really been tried before.
When a nation becomes too heavily imbalanced between the haves and the has less you risk the same thing. Jumping out of a frying pan into a fire happens all the time.
Better to have some social justice than risk the alternative, IMHO.
parsy, who is happier if his neighbors ain’t starving, cause he don’t have to worry as much about his house.
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