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Category Archives: Canadian BS

GREAT STOSSEL PIECE ON HEALTH REFORM

A must see for anyone still moved by objective data:

[HT We Stand Firm]

Posted 01 August 2009 † Catron § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

CANADIAN HEALTH CARE: THE GROTESQUE REALITY

Steven Crowder takes a tour through the nightmare that is Canada’s single-payer health care system:

This is what our new President and his congressional accomplices want for you.
[HT We Stand Firm]

Posted 19 July 2009 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

WHERE WILL WE GO?

Public opinion surveys have consistently shown that Americans consider access and cost to be the most important problems facing the U.S. health care system. In a recent Gallup poll, for example, 30% of the respondents identified access as “the most urgent health problem.�
When Americans talk about “access,â€? we mean the ability to see a doctor […]

Posted 04 June 2009 † Catron § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

CROWDER ON CANADIAN HEALTH CARE

Funny. True.

[HT Devon Herrick]

Posted 25 March 2009 † Catron § ‡ Comments (4)

ATLAS HOLDING UP THE FACTS

Despite the ongoing effort by the ”news” media to convince the U.S. public that our health care system compares poorly to those of other developed countries, the objective data reveal a far different picture. Dr. Scott Atlas provides some facts in the Washington Times:
Americans have better survival rates from both common and rare cancers than Europeans.
Americans have significantly better survival rates from cancer than Canadians.
Americans […]

Posted 24 February 2009 † Catron § European BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (2)

I HAD ARTHROSCOPIC KNEE SURGERY

Actually, the term “surgery” is a little grandiose for this procedure. These days, fixing a torn meniscus requires only a couple of small holes in the knee—-one for an arthroscope and the other for the instruments the surgeon uses to cut the tissue.
Why should you care about this? Well, because it illustrates the swiftness and ease with which such injuries are diagnosed and treated in the […]

Posted 25 November 2008 † Catron § ‡ Comments (3)

KRUGMAN AGONISTES

While participating in a debate about universal health care, Paul Krugman apparently wanted to demonstrate how happy Canadians are with their health care system. So, he decided to involve the audience in the discussion, with the following result:
PAUL KRUGMAN
And private insurance? That’s the thing, I— Actually, can I just —I wanted to ask a question. And—
JOHN […]

Posted 19 September 2008 † Catron § Universal BS ‡ Comments (0)

STATS & THE TORTURED TORTURE TROPE

You know you’re in for a tedious read when a blog post contains the shopworn “torture” metaphor in its title. Thus, it was with a sigh of resignation that I slogged through Joe Paduda’s response to my recent post about Lancet Oncology’s study of cancer survival rates.
Paduda disputes my claim that the U.S. has the best health care system, but his position […]

Posted 06 August 2008 † Catron § European BS § Public Opinion BS ‡ Comments (0)

CANADA’S HEALTH SYSTEM DISSED BY ITS DAD

Claude Castonguay is known as “the father of Quebec Medicare.” However, as David Gratzer points out in IBD, Castonguay can be more accurately described as the “father” of the Canadian single-payer system:
Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec adopt government-administered health care […]

Posted 26 June 2008 † Catron § ‡ Comments (4)

U.S. HEALTH CARE VS. THE ALTERNATIVE

A couple of weeks ago I noted the ironic fact that Edward Kennedy is receiving cancer treatment in the U.S. health care system that he has so often maligned. Robert Goldberg points out another important detail of this story in the New York Post:
With his wealth and power, Kennedy would get good treatment anywhere. But the same care is available […]

Posted 05 June 2008 † Catron § NHS BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (11)