Comments on: The Implosion of the Canadian Health Care System?

By: Dave Rathke

Dave Rathke — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:18:57 +0000

Actually, Canada has more doctors per capita than the U.S. with that number skewed towards general practitioners rather than specialists. More importantly, Canada spends less than half the amount per person on health care that we do in our country. Finally, Canada is socialized insurance rather than socialized medicine (the UK's national health service could probably be tagged more in that realm). As our own health care system implodes, I think we'll have to do a little better than rely upon ideological rants. Facts gentlemen, please.

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By: G A Phillips

G A Phillips — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:59:23 +0000

D.C. I don't drink any more, but I ain't no hater so start drawing up the plans.

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Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:04:00 +0000

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By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:59:16 +0000

Sounds like you got your priorities straight, GA. I'll go along as long as we secure the breweries first.

By: G A Phillips

G A Phillips — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:51:30 +0000

Yhoi, now your talking, we could get a lot of good walleye fishing out of this too.

By: Yhoi

Yhoi — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:06:12 +0000

I'd say things are about to change in Canada. Whether the change is for the better or not will depend largely depend on the politicians.

The place is on the verge of civil war. We should invade now and secure all the natural gas in Alberta before they squander it on their stupid health care system.

By: Vote For Doug

Vote For Doug — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:00:08 +0000

Canada's Healthcare Nightmare...

The Canadian system of healthcare is crumbling. This is by no means surprising to me. Canadians pay around US$500 per person in taxes to pay for the healthcare system. In contrast, I pay around that much for full insurance coverage for the entire famil...

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:18:58 +0000

Anywhere in the world socialized health care has been tried, it is in the process or has already failed.
Americans have an opportunity here to avoid this wretched scheme run by an organization(US Government) that has difficulty getting a letter across town in a week.
Let's not fall for the old slight of hand by instituting socialized health care under a different name such as National Health care, or say, Hillarycare. Simply because 535 fools in Washington devise a plan to pander for votes will not make it an acceptable alternative to the present system. The present system does have its flaws, I rather think those problems should be worked out in a free market, not by individuals who care more about their political tenure than my gall bladder.
Hey, I love lobster, you sure we really can't make a socialized lobster plan work?

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:52:47 +0000

Benny Hill did gags years ago comparing the decrepit British NHS system with the lavish treatment in the private clinics.