"Father" of Canadian Health Care Admits its a Failure

civitas review ^ | 6/27/2017 | Brian Balfour

[scooby321]

"Back in the 1960s, (Claude) Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies

"We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."

[sanjuanbob]

Wrong Jim. I have a sister that lives in Canada and uses both the public system and also goes to private clinics and specialists. She pays through the teeth but can afford it with minimal waits and top notch service. Vancouver, BC.

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[gymbeau]

Yeah. It’s really annoying.

[TheNext]

Imprison the man, Castonguay, for harmimg so many children.

[AppyPappy]

The Canadian model is propped up by the fact that people can go outside of Canada for treatment.

[TheNext]

You are full of leftist BS.

[ChicagahAl]

...for some reason lefties in this country want to...

For SOME reason?

Power and money.

Those are the two reasons that Lefties (AKA: Democrats) do anything.

The ONLY two reasons.

Always.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Socialism works until you run out of other peoples money…………………

. . . which always happens in the long run - and the “long run” always arrives astonishingly quickly.

[hinckley buzzard]

The Canadian system's "private pay safety valve" is American clinics close to the border: Mayo in Minnesota, Cleveland Clinic, Leahy Clinic in Boston, several others, all attracting thousands of affluent Canadian patients every year to cross the border and get first rate service.

[Jim Noble]

Yes, a single payer system without a safety valve has to be avoided.

[Catholic Canadian]

Yep. But once the red-pill is swallowed, it does the job. I was similarly blind, a long time ago.

[minnesota_bound]

How many Canadians have been killed to pay for the free healthcare?
Along the US side of the border are clinics with more MRI/CAT machines then in all of Canada along with medical care that Canadians cannot get access to unless they wait 6 months and more only to be denied because some gov’t official deems you obsolete.

In England they have been killing 130,000 people a year because of the Liverpool Care Pathway

The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html

[Does so]

I suspect that Canada's health care will become more costly as they sell the US less fossil fuel and fewer forestry products. (Due to Trump's likely tariffs).

Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country—

So what happened to Quebec?