It's the first step toward achieving one of the most cherished items on the agenda of the "progressives".
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"Most Republicans don't understand health care, so don't want to talk about it; many grimace at voting down money for 'kids'; quite a few face tough elections and would rather not jump into an unknown debate. Reformers also aren't getting cover from should-be allies. Insurers and lobby groups like PHRMA--who ought to understand that a bigger Schip is a threat to their long-term business--are instead focused on short-term profits and PR images. Republican governors--who'd be huge beneficiaries of an individualized market--seem to only care about keeping federal dollars flowing into state coffers."
And meanwhile in Europe socialism is driving pharmaceuitical research out of existence.
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ReplyDeleteAgain, meanwhile in Europe socialism is driving pharmaceutical research out of existence
FRED GREGORY
I saws this today. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to the original story:
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Canadians are fed up with their state-run health care system which was put in place in the 1970s. In fact, 93 percent of those polled last month said that improving health care should be the government's top priority. In another poll, 74 percent of respondents supported the idea of user fees -- which have been outlawed since 1984.
State-managed medicine has led to not enough doctors, nurses or hospital beds to meet the demand.
* On one recent day, emergency rooms in 23 of Toronto's 25 hospitals had to turn away ambulances -- and police officers had to shoot to death a distraught father who had taken a doctor hostage in an attempt to get treatment for his sick baby.
* In Winnipeg, "hallway medicine" has become so common that hallway stretcher locations have permanent numbers.
* Ambulances filled with ill patients have repeatedly stacked up this winter in the parking lot of Vancouver General Hospital, where an estimated 20 percent of patients in the midst of heart attacks must wait an hour or more for treatment.
* Waiting lists for surgery in some Canadian hospitals can stretch from months to as long as five years.
Canada is experimenting with a two-tier, public-private health system -- but it applies only to dentists and veterinarians. Michael Bliss, a medical historian recently wrote in The National Post newspaper: "So we have the absurdity in Canada that you can get faster care for your gum disease than your cancer, and probably more attentive care for your dog than your grandmother."
The waiting list for magnetic resonance imaging is so long that one man recently reserved a session for himself at a private animal hospital which had such a machine. He registered under the name Fido.
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ReplyDelete"True Believers for Universal Health Insurance" always seem to gloss over points like that, jaycee.
In addition there are MANY other reasons why "universal health insurance", as touted by Dems/Leftie/"Progressives", does not work.