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• Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the California-based Pacific Research Institute: "As a former Canadian now living in the U.S., I have witnessed first-hand the failure of national health care. Implemented in 1971, the Canadian system provides excellent evidence of what happens to the quality of care when government is the sole provider — long waiting lines for critical procedures, lack of access to current technology, increasing costs to taxpayers and patients, and a brain drain of doctors, who head south for better working conditions and more money."

(Ross Mackenzie [Tribune Media Services] in Town Hall, August 15, 2003)
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So maybe the Canucks don't have all the answers to everything after all.

[Jim Noble]

Americans are desperate for socialized medicine.

After all, your Mommy didn't charge you for milk & cookies when you came home from school. Your Daddy didn't seek payment up front when he put a band-aid on your booboo.

Why, then, should you pay the doctor?

This is going to be the funniest thing to watch in this country's political life-EVER.

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So maybe the Canucks don't have all the answers to everything after all



No... we don't. But we're learning from you Merks real fast how to do things right... aye. ;-)

[baseballmom]

The facility is set to deliver 2,700 children per year, but that’s expensive under a system in which deliveries are “free.” The bureaucrats set the hospital’s quota at 2,100 newborns. If doctors delivered too many babies, they’d lose their jobs.

Babies don't know about quotas, they have a way of coming out - whether scheduled or not.

Waiting is the price they pay for “free” care. Between 1993 and 2001, the median waiting time from referral by a general practitioner to treatment increased by seven weeks, from 9.3 weeks in 1993 to 16.2 weeks in 2001. Waiting times increased across all specialties and across nine of Canada’s 10 provinces.

Yes, this is what we want. A wait of 4 months to get an MRI, or a CT scan. Talk about 3rd world.

What we should DEMAND is the same exact plan that our esteemed representatives have - nothing more and NOTHING LESS.

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ping

[buccaneer81]

Lived there, done that. I'll take fighting with my PPO any day.

[buccaneer81]

Lived there, done that. I'll take fighting with my PPO any day.

[Susannah]

Canadians HAVE available private health care - - - it's called the USA. I've heard many stories of people going to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, etc. for life-saving surgery and chemo. I guess those that can't afford the trip south just wait to die.

Canadians don't need a military either with neighbors like the USA.

I also know a woman in Ireland who went to Connecticut for breast surgery and chemo.