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To: wagglebee
In emphatic arrogance, Martin asserted, "We are not going to have a two-tier health care system in this country. Nobody wants that."

There is already a two-tier health care system in Canada.

Members of the federal Parliament and 4,364 high-ranking federal bureaucrats can avoid waiting lists because they have access to the National Defense Medical Center. In 1990, the Canadian Auditor General reported that 61 percent of the center’s in-patient days were for nonmilitary patients. "Politicians jump the queue by going to a military hospital."

4 posted on 06/19/2005 12:21:43 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius

I know several wealthy Canadians who routinely come to the US for medical care, they are simply unwilling to take their chances. The other problem is that lack of free enterprise has resulted in many top-notch Canadian doctors leaving Canada to earn more money.


5 posted on 06/19/2005 12:24:55 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Polybius

thanks for posting that.


15 posted on 06/19/2005 5:02:57 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/canadahealthcare.htm)
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To: Polybius
Interesting that they are going to close Walter Reed AND Bethesda, replacing both with the National Military Medical Center, affiliated with NIH.

Guess the Congressmen are thinking ahead...

18 posted on 06/20/2005 4:07:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God)
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