It has low spending, an oil boom and a smartly run single payer health care system. Conservatives praise Canada but leave out of some the things that make it work so well. Which they would hate here.
canada has no free speech.
they have human rights tribunals if you are not pc right-thinking.
homosexuals are very powerful and you can’t speak the truth about it.
This is wrong. Canadian spending is much higher, but it's got a continent's worth of natural resources divided up over 35m people. We have a similar amount of resources, but it's divided up over 9x the population.
Who is writing this bilge?
Their health care is TERRIBLE.
I have a friend who’s married to a Canadian gal. His father in law has a high psa test. They were very slow to treat him, telling him to wait and making appointments nearly impossible to get. Months later he was having worse symptoms — they finally biopsies and determined it was an aggressive small-cell carcinoma. The had many more delays before finally operating on him, too late. He died a few months ago. His daughter (lives with her American husband, my friend in the USA) is still devastated — she pleaded with him to push hard for treatment but like most Canadians he believed the government was doing all they could (and maybe they were within the constraints of the uncaring system).
It was a totally preventable death, if he had been treated promptly. They kept telling him “you have priority” which is meaningless when the system is so slow, cumbersome and impersonal.
In Canada you can’t change your doctor — and doctors don’t work much due to labor laws. If your doctor is on vacation you have to wait for them to return.
It’s fine for minor ailments, but if you have a real issue you’re SCREWED.
Isn’t gun control pretty idiotic and strict in Canada? I mean isn’t the populace pretty disarmed?
For those of us who like to read reeeeaaaaalllllyyyyyy long indepth articles, here is the link to another that is mentioned in the original NY Times piece...
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/lessons-from-canada
They have a safety valve for the many shortcomings of their single-payer health system called the United States of America.
Worth noting.