Posted on 07/26/2007 6:54:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
I was once a believer in socialized medicine. As a Canadian, I had soaked up the belief that government-run health care was truly compassionate. What I knew about American health care was unappealing: high expenses and lots of uninsured people.
My health care prejudices crumbled on the way to a medical school class. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute.
Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
Excellent article. Bookmarked.
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yea, he really laid it out well, IMO
ping for later
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Perhaps Micheal Moore could make a film on this. I know Moore is really concerned about health care issues like this....
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Americans live 75.3 years on average, fewer than Canadians (77.3) or the French (76.6) or the citizens of any Western European nation save Portugal. Health care influences life expectancy, of course. But a life can end because of a murder, a fall or a car accident. Such factors aren't academic — homicide rates in the U.S. are much higher than in other countries.
In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.
MM would eat anyonein the line.
Hillary and her croonies have private physicians.
Posted on 11/20/2003 3:15:45 AM EST by Lancey Howard
November 19, 2003 -- DAN Aykroyd is no fan of the bureaucratic bungling and cut-rate care of socialized medicine. "One place you don't want to get sick is Quebec," the Canadian actor advised us after a screening of Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions." "It's all socialized. Believe me, you don't want to go to a hospital there."
Does American research subsidize Candian medicine?
More precisely, does free(er) enterprise medicine subsidize socialized medicine?
Just Wow!
Akroyd’s article unavailable, except by purchase.
This is the impression people in the med care system in the US talk about as far as I’ve been concerned. It is well-known. I’ve been in two arguments over MM’s film and my surprise at just how far people (liberals) are willing to remain thoughtless and single minded for an agenda.
She who shall remain nameless purposefully excluded the AMA from her planning sessions. I imagine it had something to do with this.
I always fear that once Gov is formed you can never get rid of it. At least this author shows that alternatives can thrive and that Gov can be turned back.
I prefer we just dont go down that path to begin with.
Most of the problems we have with healthcare cost in this country now is the Gov meddling with the industry
It’s from 2003. What you see there is pretty much all there was anyway.
It’s a Richard Johnson ‘Page 6’ item.
Regards,
LH
Have you noticed that the R’s have decided to introduce their own health care reforms in the senate this week? They say we can’t wait for the presidential election. I saw two mentions of that today. It will drive the Dems nuts. Good strategy.
“Excellent article. Bookmarked.”
Sure is.
Good to know: Aykroyd Against SM.
Off to google Richard Johnson...
(If only we had socialized archives)
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