I recently posted the following response to someone on a social networking site who said about government run health care that it was better than no health care at all. It ends rather abruptly because of a character limit.
But of course government health care IS no health care if you develop a potentially fatal condition [...]
National Post recently reported that over 12% of Canadians don’t have access to a family doctor. How can this be in a country with wonderful, universal socialized medicine for all? Because Canadian healthcare is so bad that fewer and fewer people want to practice medicine there. Plus according to National Review many of the physicians [...]
Oregon's government run healthcare plan denied cancer treatment to a 53 year old man. They were kind enough to offer to pay for physician assisted suicide though. They're all heart in Oregon.
There was a great commentary in Monday's WSJ about a new study that analyzed survival rates for several common types of cancer among 31 countries. Wouldn't you know it? American healthcare came out on top.
How can that be when other countries have universal healthcare? The answer is exactly what free market supporters have been saying [...]
In an email, a former neighbor mentioned that some other former neighbors had moved to Canada. She mentioned:
"Everything costs far more than here, with the exception of health care."
Oh, it still costs plenty folks. But you write the check to Ottawa in the form of higher taxes rather than to your doctor. Then the differential [...]