[gorush]

[max americana]

We have the same sh&t in canada, that’s why the provincial govt caves for these clowns.

[bkopto]

So this is what the vaunted NHS has come to.

The limeys need to dump socialism and get the free market back into medicine.

[DAC21]

$hit happens when you have Single Payer and Single Employer.

[tbw2]

This is why socialized medicine + public service unions = evil.

[PGR88]

With free health care, you get what you pay for.

Or actually, you pay a lot of taxes for nothing.

[Cyman]

Wish we could do that here.

[caveat emptor]

There was a doctors' strike Canada in 1962 when gov't of Saskatchewan put universal medical in place.

Here's a quote from Wiki:

The 1962 Saskatchewan doctors' strike was a 23-day labour action exercised by medical doctors in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan in an attempt to force the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Saskatchewan to rescind its program of universal medical insurance. The strike began on July 1, 1962, the day the Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act took force, and ended July 23, 1962.

The doctor's lost the battle, but won the war. They went on to form the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), to which 95% of Canadian doctors belong, memberships paid for by Jean Q. Publique via rebates paid for by provincial governments to individual doctors (rates vary between provinces) - it works sort of like malpractice insurance. They'll pay up in a flash if, say, the doctor cuts off the wrong leg at the knee after an accident. But short of that sort of catastrophe they'll fight like mad, in extreme cases spending enormous amounts to fight a pittance of a settlement already offered.

I asked my GP about it when I first heard of it. He said he was occasionally asked to serve as expert witness in a trial. He thought it was a great organization.

They do other things as well, such as providing training upgrades in areas of emerging need and also providing specialist certification - not like specialists certified by Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or American Board of Medical Specialties.

Here's the CMPA's home page:

Protecting the professional integrity of physicians and promoting safe medical care in Canada.

[RetiredTexasVet]

All right, government controlled national health care the way it’s supposed to be!

[dfwgator]

Yeah, let's celebrate that NHS some more, eh?

[hal ogen]

I laugh at socialist simpletons and their dilemmas.