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Here’s a nice link everyone should check out re the Frosts’ and SCHIP:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/the-frosts-demonstrate-wh_b_68015.html

The writer argues for socialized medicine, just like Canada, saying that it’s good for business (and apparently for the big auto makers). The only problem with that is, it isn’t working very well for the citizens of Canada. That’s a minor detail that the writer conveniently refuses to address.

From the article:

[Finally there is the issue of competitiveness. I’ll let General Motors of Canada make the argument for me.

“The Canadian plan has been a significant advantage for investing in Canada,” says GM Canada spokesman David Patterson, noting that in the United States, GM spends $1,400 per car on health benefits. Indeed, with the provinces sharing 75 percent of the cost of Canadian healthcare, it’s no surprise that GM, Ford and Chrysler have all been shifting car production across the border at such a rate that the name “Motor City” should belong to Windsor, not Detroit.
Just two years ago, GM Canada’s CEO Michael Grimaldi sent a letter co-signed by Canadian Autoworkers Union president Buzz Hargrave to a Crown Commission considering reforms of Canada’s 35-year-old national health program that said, “The public healthcare system significantly reduces total labour costs for automobile manufacturing firms, compared to their cost of equivalent private insurance services purchased by U.S.-based automakers.” That letter also said it was “vitally important that the publicly funded healthcare system be preserved and renewed, on the existing principles of universality, accessibility, portability, comprehensiveness and public administration,” and went on to call not just for preservation but for an “updated range of services.” CEOs of the Canadian units of Ford and DaimlerChrysler wrote similar encomiums endorsing the national health system.]

Umm yes it good for GM. Instead of them paying for health care, they simply shift the cost onto the Canadian Taxpayers. There is no “Free health care”. One way or another someone pays for it. In Socialist systems, it the taxpayers. And their costs are significantly higher then what we pay now for our system.

All Socialists Medicine does is add in layers of Govt Bureaucrats in place of the Insurance Companies. There is no such thing as “free” anything.