An interesting analytical comparison of Canadian Universal Health Care to the American brand of health care. Looks to me like the Canadian brand beats out our brand in every respect.
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To: joseph_hardesty
We can always just ask the hordes of Canadians streaming over the Ambassador Bridge and through the Windsor Tunnel as they come to Detroit for routine testing and invasive surgery. Why do you suppose that is? Hmmmmmmmm.
2 posted on
11/06/2003 8:35:22 AM PST by
SJSAMPLE
To: joseph_hardesty; VRWCmember; Constitution Day; 4mycountry; Poohbah; hchutch; Grampa Dave; ...
So move to Canada, member since Nov. 6, 2003.
3 posted on
11/06/2003 8:35:54 AM PST by
TheBigB
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To: joseph_hardesty
the Canadian brand beats out our brand in every respectUnless you want surgery this year.
To: joseph_hardesty
I would like to know, seriously, how much paperwork canadian doctors and hospitals have to file. It seems to me, that generating paperwork is the main activity in the US healthcare system.
5 posted on
11/06/2003 8:37:49 AM PST by
eabinga
To: joseph_hardesty
Let's see SARS got into Toronto and killed over a hundred people, SARS got into America and killed none. Which country has the superior healthcare system?
Most of those stats are related to a lot more than just healthcare, life expectancy is also a function of diet, driving habits, life style risks and willingness to see doctors in the first place.
When push comes to shove the question is simple: check out the quality of the roads on your next trip, do you reall want those people in charge or your healthcare?
6 posted on
11/06/2003 8:39:22 AM PST by
discostu
(You figure that's gotta be jelly cos jam just don't shake like that)
To: joseph_hardesty
What a pant load.
7 posted on
11/06/2003 8:40:42 AM PST by
GWfan
To: joseph_hardesty; meowmeow; Constitution Day; 4mycountry; Poohbah; Grampa Dave; ...
Incoming!
Joseph, feel free to participate in the wonderful canadian healthcare system.
Two words: doorknob, @$$
8 posted on
11/06/2003 8:42:40 AM PST by
VRWCmember
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To: joseph_hardesty
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9 posted on
11/06/2003 8:43:21 AM PST by
VRWCmember
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To: joseph_hardesty
First, posting an article like this on your first day is likley to get you labeled a disruptor (even if you are not). Second, I know people who live under this system in Canada. Why don't you mention the 6 month waiting lists to get surgeries? Why don't you mention that if you are over a certain age and you have cancer, they send you home to die? This happened to my Aunt.
They mention that Medicare only has a 2% overhead. That is very misleading. Go out to the private insurance company that the government has contracted with to administer Medicare and see what their overhead is. Not to mention the cost shifting to the private sector by government programs.
Why don't you mention that benefits have been massively scaled back in Canada in recent years because of budget deficits? Finally, why don't you mention that all health care is rationed. Whether economically or by the government. I am very nervous letting the government decide who gets health care and who doesn't.
10 posted on
11/06/2003 8:44:07 AM PST by
Pete
To: joseph_hardesty
You know...you're NEW HERE (11/6/03).....and you post something like this on your first day? You really should improve your analytical skills before posting this kind of tripe....
12 posted on
11/06/2003 8:44:12 AM PST by
goodnesswins
(just wondering)
To: joseph_hardesty
Our government has too much control over our healthcare as it is. There is nothing conservative about universal health care.
To: joseph_hardesty
The article you cite is titled "Are Canadians Stupid?". You would probably get more interest by leaving it unaltered, newbie.
To: joseph_hardesty
What is today? Fools on Parade? Move to or stay in Canada but save your posts for DU.
15 posted on
11/06/2003 8:46:00 AM PST by
Conspiracy Guy
(Living fast is fine as long as you steer well and have good brakes.)
To: joseph_hardesty; Poohbah; dighton; Howlin; mhking; Chancellor Palpatine
Fox Four! Fox Four!
21 posted on
11/06/2003 8:47:13 AM PST by
hchutch
("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
To: joseph_hardesty
I have relatives in Canada.
I had an uncle who was allowed to be blind for the last six months of life because a simply operation to allow him to see was decided to be not a good use of health care dollars.
I had an other uncle who was dieing and there was no bed for him available at the hospital in Winnipeg. They did not diagnose him until it was too late.
Take your numbers, words of lies, and pray that we never have Canadian health care here.
22 posted on
11/06/2003 8:47:33 AM PST by
TruthConquers
("Who will liberate us from these tyrants of secularist tolerance?")
To: joseph_hardesty
When you get some true empirical data that is not cobbled together by someone and tossed haphazardly onto a Geocities site, call me.
Otherwise, go take a flying leap.
24 posted on
11/06/2003 8:47:55 AM PST by
mhking
To: joseph_hardesty
I believe that health care spending in America is about 20% of our private spending plus the aforementioned 6.6% government spending. That adds up to about 25% of our total gross income.
The entire socialist world is piggybacking on us.
- End tort reform.
- Make health insurance like car insurance. You don't pay for normal gas fill-ups and the like, you just pay for the big accidents. Same thing with health care.
- Medicare beneficaries should have a $1000 deductible MINIMUM.
- Allow people to import drugs from other countries. Supply & demand will reduce the cost in our country while increasing cost in other countries, thus working against foreign price controls.
- Why the heck do we pay teachers to go through college in exchange for 5 years' work while letting med school students accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars' debt?
<flame suit on>
26 posted on
11/06/2003 8:48:03 AM PST by
Nataku X
(Praise the Lord! May Terri recover from her starvation ordeal; may her parents become her guardians.)
To: joseph_hardesty
Of course it does hence the many many Americans in Canadian Hospitals and the total lack of any Canadians in US Hospitals. /sarcasm off
You fools make me sick. The only problem with healthcare is the US inability to force the people who use it as a free service to pay. Our neighbors had 2 children and bragged to us how they never had any intention of paying for either.
27 posted on
11/06/2003 8:48:49 AM PST by
Pkeel
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28 posted on
11/06/2003 8:49:21 AM PST by
mhking
To: joseph_hardesty
CANADIANS HEAD TO MAINE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT
Normally when you hear about bus trips between Maine and Canada related to health care, it's Mainers going north to buy prescription drugs.
But right about now, a group of Canadians is in Bangor for treatment. Twelve Canadians came south for a similar trip last year. The trip from New Brunswick is sponsored by a Canadian consumer group which says Canada's universal health care system restricts many forms of treatment for Canadians, and forces long waits for tests and procedures such as m-r-i's. The Canadians will be treated in Bangor this afternoon, and then head back to Canada.
http://www.wlbz.com/home/article.asp?id=7459
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