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 […]
The National Review of Medicine highlights the economic illiteracy that permeates Canada’s health care bureaucracy. Last year, the provincial government of New Brunswick decided that physicians with full practices needed an incentive to take on new patients. However, like all bureaucrats trying to outsmart the market, they implemented a program whose unintended consequences outweighed any […]
… when the NYT calls you “one-sided.” This back-handed accolade was received yesterday by Stuart Browning in reference to his film “Dead Meat,” which, as the Gray Lady phrased it:
Presents anecdotes of failure in the Canadian single-payer system. In its one-sidedness, “Dead Meat” (available online at onthefencefilms.com) might have made for a nice double feature […]
Sally Pipes appears in Michael Moore’s health care schlockumentary and she takes exception to its flattering portrayal of Canadian health care:
Moore put me, fleetingly, into “Sicko” as an example of an American who doesn’t understand the Canadian health care system. He couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve personally endured the creeping disaster of Canadian health care.
Pipes’ […]
The next time some “progressive” tells you that Canadian health care is superior to the U.S. system, ask him the following question: If their system is so great, why do the political leaders of that country eschew it for private care? The Montreal Gazette reports the following:
Former prime ministers Paul Martin, Jean Chretien and Joe […]
Today, a group of California legislators provided Michael Moore with yet another venue in which to tell his furious tale. Meanwhile, Michael Cannon links to a Toronto Star piece in which Moore receives considerably less friendly treatment by Canadian journalists:
We Canucks were taking issue with the large liberties Sicko takes with the facts … Sicko […]
A Canadian think tank has warned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to avoid Canadian-style health care like the plague:
Canada is currently witnessing the failure of its own single-payer health insurance system. Faced with this example, why would Americans want to adopt such a system for themselves?
The “Governator” is visiting Canada for three days, but it is […]
It’s a matter of faith among advocates of socialized medicine that our neighbors to the north enjoy a health care system vastly superior to our own, and prominent among their talking points is the claim that Canada is somehow better at cost control than the U.S. The facts, however, don’t support that contention. In fact, […]
One of the best pieces in the Health Wonk Review, the latest edition of which can be found at InsureBlog, is Michael Cannon’s deconstruction of Ezra Klein’s recent effusions on the uninsured. Klein’s delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, Cannon shows that he really isn’t very good at this stuff:
Klein argues that if the insurance industry uses […]
Most students of economics will confirm that shortages follow price controls with the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy. Anyone in denial about this stubborn fact should peruse this study by Nadeem Esmail of the Fraser Institute. Speaking specifically to Canada’s well-known physician shortage, he writes:
The shortage of physician services in Canada is not the result […]
