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Originally Posted by Barefoot
I'm sure I could find many horror stories in the USA of people dying in hospitals from patient neglect, incorrect medications, doctors' errors. So .... why try to demonize Canadian socialized medicine to make your point? How very strange that most people in Canada rate their health care system very highly.
The valid point is not that socialized medicine is bad. It isn't. But the current economic climate in the US obviously means that it isn't the right time to innovate a hugely expensive system such as socialized medicine.
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Agree!
The Canadian system has had the opportunity for 15 years of set-up and 50 more years of maturing, and supports 31 million people. So, comparing it to a throw-it-together-now system the Administration touts as immediately necessary for 306 million people during a period of close-to-10% unemployment and a major economic drop is unfair and illogical.
We can all find horror stories within every type of system. The bottom line is indeed - can we afford the set-up costs and the maturation period for any new system
at this time?
When an economy is healthy, we seem to be able to afford anything. When we are up to our butts iin national debt, and the economy still heading downward, can we really afford any kind of new program - health care, travel to Jupiter, search for the Loch Ness Monster or cap-and-trade?
For those who would like a health care system similar to the Canadian program, a little research is warranted into how the Canadians did it, the problems they encountered, are there any cultural or economic differences between Canada and the USA which apply.
For those from Canada and the UK who reside part-time in TV, your insight into how you employ your health care system is appreciated. You have the advantage of finding it necessary to experience both the US "system" and your national one. It would not surprise me that you have developed strategies to take advantage of both, and the why and how of that helps us who have not experienced government-managed health care understand it.