[joyce11111]

FYI

[Balding_Eagle]

If your question about health care on another thread was sincere, and you're still around (DU seems to be back up), this thread will interest you.

[onedoug]

But Mr. Reinhardt says introducing some features of the US healthcare system might be fraught with difficulties. "[The US] system has left 40 million people uninsured," he says, "and medical bills have become the second leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US."

Though lower taxes would allow greater insurance purchasing power, which in turn should lower premiums, no?

Might someone more learned clue me otherwise?

[VOA]

Exacerbating Canada's poor performance among industrialized countries is its
proximity to the US, notes Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt.

Leave it to some tenured pinhead at an Ivy League school to inform us as to why
Canada can't prop up their healthcare system.
It's all the fault of those EEEVVVIIILLL Americans!

Actually this must be true. We prevented the USSR from giving Communism a fair test.
It's all our fault.
I feel so ashamed, NOT!

Actually a system like Canada's sounds wonderful on paper.
But humans are greedy little buggers. Offer them subsidized healthcare and they
overload the system; doctors and dentists will even switch citizenship for more bucks.

About the only way the system can work in the real world is just to tell the
patients to not get as sick as often as they do...and chain the M.D.s to their
clinics before they have a chance to claim financial asylum in the USA.

[watcher1]

Should Romanow's commission fail to deliver a workable solution, Canada's 10 provinces might be forced to take matters into their own hands.

This has already happened.
A year of two ago Quebec had to send it's cardiac patents to the states for treatment.
I've seen hospitals in Quebec that were almost third world.
Hospitals in Ontario seem to be a little better.

Strikes seem to plague the canuckistan health system too.
Of course everyone is unionized in the socialist monarchy of canuckistan.
From junkies in vancouver to nurses in quebec.

Canuckistan! Socialism from sea to whining sea!