Posted on 08/12/2005 5:24:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
...last June, a majority of Canada's Supreme Court struck down a Quebec law that banned private health insurance and held that the public system inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on many of its patients. The Fraser Institute has found it takes an average of 17.9 weeks between the time a patient makes an appointment to see a general practitioner and when he can then see a specialist. He will then be treated by a system that ranks 13th out of 22 advanced countries in access to MRI technology; 17th out of 21 in access to CT scanners and seventh out of 22 in access to radiation machines...
But Canada's public care doesn't save money... adjusted for the age of its population, Canada vies with Iceland and Switzerland as the highest spender on health care among the 28 most developed nations with universal systems. Dr. David Gratzer...calculates that a Canadian earning $35,000 a year pays a stunning $7,350 in health-care taxes.
Canada's Supreme Court was scathing in its indictment of the system. "Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," the court ruled. "Delays in the public health care system are widespread . . . in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists." The court struck down a Quebec law banning private medical insurance...
You'd think the court's ruling would lead to dramatic changes. A new Ipsos-Reid poll finds that 83% of doctors view the court's decision "favorably." But only 52% of Canadians, who have been conditioned for years to think that their health care is free, share that view...
Those who believe Canada's debate isn't relevant to the U.S. should think again. The Vermont House has approved a bill to establish a government-run health care system. So too has the California State Senate...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
When Uncle Sam can't fund the escalating costs of medicare because Clinton vetoed Gingrich's 1995 medicare reform bill--that's when socialize medicine will rear its ugly head.
QUOTE:
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." -- P.J. O'Rourke
From those according to their ability
To those according to their need
-K Marx
We are going to have to take things away from you
on behalf of the 'common good'
-H Clinton
Clinton should have listened to Gingrich...that guy is a genuis!
As a historian, ol' Newt has studied, as all of us should, the vicious cycle of socialism. Say it with me, "IT...DOES...NOT...WORK!"
"If we have learned anything from history it's that we learn nothing from history."
-anonymous
Anyone have a password to get to the story? TIA
It's all about people control from here on out
One evil insidious step at a time. But, it is for our own good. Or so they tell us.
>If buying a home and not being able to deduct your mortgage >interest is your thing...Vote DemocRats..
Mortgage Deductability isn't really good economic policy, and I'm sure the US would back out of it if it wasn't too late, but I see your point.
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