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Tampa Russ
10-27-2008, 05:09 AM
Does the USA really want to go here?

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Another sign of transformation: Canadian doctors, long silent on the health-care system’s problems, are starting to speak up. Last August, they voted Brian Day president of their national association. A former socialist who counts Fidel Castro as a personal acquaintance, Day has nevertheless become perhaps the most vocal critic of Canadian public health care, having opened his own private surgery center as a remedy for long waiting lists and then challenged the government to shut him down. “This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week,” he fumed to the New York Times, “and in which humans can wait two to three years.”

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

Lefty
10-27-2008, 05:05 PM
Tampa russ, thanks for confirming what a lot of us have been trying to tell the ones who blve in govt healthcare.

witchdoctor
10-27-2008, 05:10 PM
I guess my fear is that government will take over running medicine. They do it for a large portion of the population already. It is called the VA. When I was at the Audie Murphey VA, the joke was at least it was near a real hospital.

Lefty
10-27-2008, 05:24 PM
witchdoctor, that's my fear too. The govt has a bad track record, ie: Medicare and the VA. So why in heck do some want to put them in charge of the whole system?

witchdoctor
10-27-2008, 05:35 PM
witchdoctor, that's my fear too. The govt has a bad track record, ie: Medicare and the VA. So why in heck do some want to put them in charge of the whole system?

I don't know.

Ignorance is bliss.