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"Father" of Canadian Health Care Admits its a Failure
civitas review ^ | 6/27/2017 | Brian Balfour

Posted on 06/27/2017 2:25:08 PM PDT by scooby321

"Back in the 1960s, (Claude) 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

"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."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: singlepayer; socializedmedicine
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To: Jim Noble

Wrong Jim. I have a sister that lives in Canada and uses both the public system and also goes to private clinics and specialists. She pays through the teeth but can afford it with minimal waits and top notch service. Vancouver, BC.


21 posted on 06/27/2017 3:32:18 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: scooby321

Bump


22 posted on 06/27/2017 3:59:19 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: certrtwngnut

Yeah. It’s really annoying.


23 posted on 06/27/2017 4:06:43 PM PDT by gymbeau (America...becoming great again!)
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To: scooby321

Imprison the man, Castonguay, for harmimg so many children.


24 posted on 06/27/2017 4:55:01 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: scooby321

The Canadian model is propped up by the fact that people can go outside of Canada for treatment.


25 posted on 06/27/2017 4:56:48 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Jim Noble

You are full of leftist BS.


26 posted on 06/27/2017 4:57:29 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: scooby321
...for some reason lefties in this country want to...

For SOME reason?

Power and money.

Those are the two reasons that Lefties (AKA: Democrats) do anything.

The ONLY two reasons.

Always.

27 posted on 06/27/2017 5:34:25 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Stay safe out there. The Haters (TM) are dangerous. Very dangerous.)
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To: Red Badger
Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money…………………
. . . which always happens in the long run - and the “long run” always arrives astonishingly quickly.

28 posted on 06/27/2017 5:35:56 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: Jim Noble
The Canadian system's "private pay safety valve" is American clinics close to the border: Mayo in Minnesota, Cleveland Clinic, Leahy Clinic in Boston, several others, all attracting thousands of affluent Canadian patients every year to cross the border and get first rate service.
29 posted on 06/27/2017 7:23:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yes, a single payer system without a safety valve has to be avoided.


30 posted on 06/27/2017 7:25:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: JudyinCanada

Yep. But once the red-pill is swallowed, it does the job. I was similarly blind, a long time ago.


31 posted on 06/27/2017 7:28:21 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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To: Red Badger

How many Canadians have been killed to pay for the free healthcare?
Along the US side of the border are clinics with more MRI/CAT machines then in all of Canada along with medical care that Canadians cannot get access to unless they wait 6 months and more only to be denied because some gov’t official deems you obsolete.

In England they have been killing 130,000 people a year because of the Liverpool Care Pathway

The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html


32 posted on 06/27/2017 8:26:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: scooby321
I suspect that Canada's health care will become more costly as they sell the US less fossil fuel and fewer forestry products. (Due to Trump's likely tariffs).

Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country—

So what happened to Quebec?

33 posted on 06/28/2017 2:36:17 AM PDT by Does so (PARIS is like OPEC, except We're Winning!)
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