PS Centre is really spelled “re” not “er”. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to have some tea at Tim Horton’s, eh? :P
"But here is the absolute logical reductio of a government monopoly in health care: the ten month waiting list for the maternity ward."
Well dog my cats, theres the answer!
Just get the government to provide doctors!! Brilliant!
Keep in mind that we only have 30 million people up here.
So an equally dire crisis in the US would have to be on the scale of 50 million and change of Americans not having a family doctor.
I know a couple who moved here from Canada who are both doctors. Their advise is to never get sick in Canada. Their worst nightmare is national health care here, as they’re running out of places to move to.
I guess that 95% is "universal coverage". That leaves 1.5 million Canadians without health care. The United States with it's private insurance program still manages to achieve 85% coverage.
But...but...Michael Moore said it was paradise up ther in Sicko....
The capitalists moved down south. In my town most of the doctors and nurses are Canadian.
It will be the decisive end of Constitutional rule of law, the end of this shining city on a hill.
When medicine is socialized Doctors make less money and are working for the government. There is no “private practice” in reality even if it remains nominally. Medicine becomes, in effect, a trade, like carpentry, or auto repair. It no longer attracts the best and brightest and the nature of the work does not attract so many. At the same time, since medical care is “free” it is resorted to for far more trivial reasons, for sniffles and bugbites. Socialization is a recipe for shortages and low quality.