Last week, Maggie Mahar linked to a risible attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Canada’s dysfunctional health care system. Mythbusting Canadian Health Care is really just a series of straw men that its author, Sara Robinson, makes a great show of knocking down, presumably in the hope that no one will notice her failure to address the real problems plaguing her country’s health care system. She […]
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Posted 13 February 2008
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Many single-payer advocates got the vapors when Rudy Giuliani quipped, ”If we ever got Hillarycare in this country, Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.” Well, this Globe & Mail article suggests he was on to something:
More than 150 critically ill Canadians – many with life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages – have been rushed to the United States […]
Europeans often moralize about the American reluctance to join the “civilized world” by implementing “universal” health care. A typical example of this condescending attitude can be found in the comment stream of this post at OVER!MY!MED!BODY!, where a Danish student offers the following:
Today there’s not a single country in Europe that doesn’t have publicly sponsored […]
Can anyone imagine an American with a burst appendix going through this kind of ordeal?
Thursday Oct. 11, 11 p.m. — Dany Bureau starts to feel pains in his stomach. He goes to sleep thinking he just has a stomach ache.
Friday Oct. 12, 3 p.m. – Mr. Bureau and his mother go to the Wakefield hospital. […]
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Posted 20 October 2007
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The National Post reports that Canada’s vaunted single-payer health care system is producing longer wait times than ever before:
Canadians waited longer than they have in more a decade for non-emergency surgery this year, despite a multi-billion-dollar effort by governments to speed up medical care …
And just how bad is it?
The average wait between being referred […]
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Posted 18 October 2007
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In response to this post, in which I mentioned how touchy “single-payer advocates are about the “S” word, I received a comment from C.M. Hughes reciting the de rigueur “progressive” talking point about socialized medicine:
The reason we don’t like equating single payer with a socialized system is because they AREN’T EQUAL! Socialized systems, like England’s, […]
Yet another Canadian politician has chosen the much-maligned U.S. health care system over that of her own country. CTV reports the following:
Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is battling breast cancer, traveled to California last June for an operation that was recommended as part of her treatment.
Stronach is merely the latest of Canada’s worthies to […]
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Posted 20 September 2007
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The Toronto Star reports that two patients have had enough of the vaunted Canadian health care system:
Two Ontario patients who had brain tumours removed in the United States because they say they couldn’t get quick treatment here are suing the provincial government over what they claim are unjustly long wait times for medical care.
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Posted 06 September 2007
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Canada, we are constantly being told by single-payer advocates, is a model social democracy with a medical delivery system that we should envy. Oddly, the people who make such claims never want to answer a question that Bill Steigerwald reiterates in a recent column:
If Canada’s national health care system is so dang wonderful, why are so many Canadians […]
In his book, America Alone, Merk Steyn offers the following quip about Canada’s system of socialized medicine:
They’re now pioneering the ultimate expression of government health care: the ten-month waiting list for the maternity ward.
He goes on to tell the story of a woman who was forced to have her baby in Alberta because there were […]
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Posted 17 August 2007
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