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While some Americans argue that our health care system should be copying Canada’s single-payer national (read: government-controlled) health care system, a recent ruling by Canada’s Supreme Court ought to cause some serious reconsideration. Deadly serious reconsideration.
Canada is the only industrialized country that actually prohibits citizens from privately contracting for medical care. In other words, no matter how much money Canadians can afford to pay, they’re stuck in the public’s health care system waiting and waiting and waiting for care.
Or, when they can afford it, giving up on waiting and traveling to the U.S. to get it.
How long are the waits?
In a case brought by Jacques Chaoulli, a Montreal family doctor, and George Zeliotis, a patient forced to wait a year to have his hip replaced, Canada’s Supreme Court found that the evidence “shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public health care.”…"
townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/pj20050619.shtml
Canada is the only industrialized country that actually prohibits citizens from privately contracting for medical care. In other words, no matter how much money Canadians can afford to pay, they’re stuck in the public’s health care system waiting and waiting and waiting for care.
Or, when they can afford it, giving up on waiting and traveling to the U.S. to get it.
How long are the waits?
In a case brought by Jacques Chaoulli, a Montreal family doctor, and George Zeliotis, a patient forced to wait a year to have his hip replaced, Canada’s Supreme Court found that the evidence “shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public health care.”…"
townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/pj20050619.shtml