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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:26:27 +0000

[...] any Englishman the same question and see what he/she tells you, or a Canadian for that matter. Consider this about the Canadian health care system. The simple truth is universal health care does not work. Click here to hear what an English [...]

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:43:08 +0000

[...] we are all, to be quite blunt, screwed. At least Canada is starting to get the picture that something is seriously amiss: American fans of single-payer health care have long held Canada as an example of success in both [...]

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:20:15 +0000

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Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:17:57 +0000

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Scrutinizing The CBO – Blog Watch — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:50:34 +0000

[...] Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey responds to reports that parts of Canada may privatize some health care services, saying, “That does prompt a question, though, on whether a little privatization is possible — a question that the US is considering in the opposite direction. If Canada will no longer cover some of these necessary procedures, it will have to allow for insurers to sell policies to cover the costs … If Canada allows that, why wouldn’t Canadians want to get insured for other issues as well? And if the electorate gets health-care coverage in a more rational and accessible manner than they do now, why would they tolerate government control in the future?” [...]

By: HAnthonyWayne

HAnthonyWayne — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:56:08 +0000

Huh? What? We've been lied to? Shocking!

By: keep the change

keep the change — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:02:41 +0000

THis article does not suggest that Canada will go private to solve the budget shortfalls. It says quite clearly that health care will just get more thinly rationed. Giving up control of the system will never happen. They will just make what is already bad, i.e. the wait times and unavailability of some services, worse.

I had to go to the hospital at 12:30 am one night this year. I didn’t get to see a doctor til 7:30 am. And it wasn’t like the place was busy. There just were no doctors available to make my 7 hour wait any shorter.

Now, instead of privatization, that 7 hour wait will now be 9 or 10 hours. That is how they government will address the financial problems – not privatization.

By: canopfor

canopfor — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:30:04 +0000

canopfor,

=========== I’m sorry. We’ll be right there with you before you know it.

ladyingray on June 1, 2010 at 11:03 AM

ladyingray:No kidding,it seems Obama models the Canadian
model,and now somebody gets the bright idea to
model after Obama!!Nuts!:)

By: free

free — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:49:51 +0000

All of this government health care BS makes me think about the movie Logan’s Run.

By: Who is John Galt

Who is John Galt — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:06:21 +0000

BarryNancyHarry don’t care anymore because Obamacare is already law. Now if this news had come out before the vote, then they would have cared.

txmomof6 on June 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM

Hmm, are you sure this is a a coincidence? With this pack of thieving evil liars? I’m not.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:01:24 +0000

Don’t we have some weirdo Canadians that post here stating the past few months that the Canadian Health Care system is just hunky dory?

By: txmomof6

txmomof6 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:01:25 +0000

BarryNancyHarry don’t care anymore because Obamacare is already law. Now if this news had come out before the vote, then they would have cared.

By: PunditKix

PunditKix — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:34:49 +0000

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By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:34:12 +0000

I'm sure that Barry and Nancy will just say that the Canadians just aren't doing it right.

By: cntrlfrk

cntrlfrk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:29:28 +0000

The right-wing teabaggers are just spreading lies about Canada’s Health Care system! It’s fiscally sound and the best in the world! Single payer!!11!

/libtard 2009

By: kens

kens — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:01:40 +0000

What’s the matter?

Costs too much and the service sucks, EH?

By: Extrafishy

Extrafishy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:55:40 +0000

Putting 85-year-olds on a five-year waiting list solves lots of budget problems.

RBMN on June 1, 2010

And it allows them to say “Death panels…what death panels?”

By: BlueCollarAstronaut

BlueCollarAstronaut — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:53:18 +0000

meh, it’s all good. All this can be straightened out if Obama will just go on a speaking tour of Canada to explain things to them. Apparently, they just don’t quite understand how it all works yet.

By: Mary in LA

Mary in LA — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:48:08 +0000

The Canadian health care system and the “death panel bureaucrats” are responsible for the death of my mother.

ultracon on June 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM

(hugs ultracon)

I sympathize completely. Kaiser killed my dad.

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:46:23 +0000

The problem with Obama is that all of ideas are old and all have failed previously, yet he’s presenting them as new ideas that have some hope of success.

What a waste.

By: CityFish

CityFish — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:44:44 +0000

And if the electorate gets health-care coverage in a more rational and accessible manner than they do now, why would they tolerate government control in the future?

umm because Canadians are mostly liberal – and liberals aren’t known for their logic. Plus it’s been ingrained into our national identity that we are superior in part because of our health care. It would be like banning hockey or closing down every Tim Horton’s store!

In all seriousness, I think our health care system would have to be dismantled piece by piece very slowly so that it’s pretty much gone before anybody realizes it! In Ontario, we no longer are covered for optometrist visits which we used to be just a few years ago and there was no outcry about that. Just start doing that to other services.

By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:36:40 +0000

Lord tunderin Jesus!

Hey hose head, it sucks when you run out of other peoples money, EH?

Maggie

By: funky chicken

funky chicken — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:31:53 +0000

Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for payments on each medical visit — an idea that critics say is an illegal user fee.

Wow–charging people a $10 copay could save their system, but people will gripe about it? “illegal user fee” my backside.

By: hip shot

hip shot — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:26:58 +0000

This is a scheme to create jobs in both countries. The US will send consultants to Canada to teach them how to profitably run a health care system that is innovative and customer focused. Canada in turn will send consultants to teach the US how to run a socialist system that slowly and maybe not so slowly to create queing for procedures, lack of innovation in technology and how to go to Canada to pay for procedures they can’t get in the US. Does this make sense?

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:17:03 +0000

There is a Canadian poster on HA who complained that a delay in the ability to see a specialist resulted in the lost of the full functionability of his wrist.