Comments on: Moncrief’s Jab At Obama Administration

By: MattP

MattP — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:57:06 +0000

Actually, the Canadian banking system is the healthiest in the world and much stronger and wiser than ours.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/183670

By: SB

SB — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:56:47 +0000

And if Canadians are so d@mned “smart”, then they why is their country so insignificant? They’re nothing more than a blip in the global political theater.

By: SB

SB — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:54:20 +0000

@ Wayne

The man who created the system you laud is calling it a failure, yet you continue to spew this useless rhetoric.

You claim we cling to narrow ideologies when it’s overly apparent that you subscribe to the typical liberal view that anything non-American = good, while anything American = bad. Why don’t you tell about all the great things that Europe does that we don’t do while you’re at it?

By: Wayne The Hoser

Wayne The Hoser — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:44:50 +0000

@PR: Those Hosers — they’re everywhere you look, even Parkland. As for mon ami Claude, he does not want to dismantle everything. He wants to make some adjustments. That’s what smart people like Canadians do. They make adjustments. They don’t cling to narrow ideologies, like some Americans I know Chris.
“Forty years after being one of the pioneers of socialized medicine, Castonguay’s commission advocates both an increased role for private enterprise in medicine and increased public investment in the socialized system both through taxes and through user fees. Castonguay was quoted as saying ‘We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.’ While concerned about the financial stresses the system places on the government, Castonguay does not advocate dismantling publicly financed health insurance altogether. “

By: PR

PR — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:15:29 +0000

Wayne,

Parkland is just like the Canadian system….

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:02:06 +0000

The man who essentially invented the Canadian healthcare system had a few words to say about it not too long ago.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:23:00 +0000

SB: A false comparison, because you can always find outliers and anomalies — the $100,000 toilet seat ordered by the defense contractor, for example. The fact is that the average Canadian has quicker and better access to health care than the average American, with or without insurance. And if you haven’t noticed, even Americans with health insurance are being squeezed by insurance companies and denied coverage — and access. And if you think Parkland’s the answer for the uninsured, I refer you to the story about the guy who died in the emergency room after 19 hours of waiting to be seen by a doctor.

By: SB

SB — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:01:38 +0000

Basically it comes down to two sides: Healthcare that’s too expensive vs. Healthcare with no access. Would you rather play $45,000 for brain surgery and get it done tomorrow? Or would you rather know the procedure is free, but have no idea as to when the procedure could actually be performed and thus vastly increasing your risk of death?

I’ll take life over money any day.

By: Wayne aka "The Hoser"

Wayne aka "The Hoser" — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:42:40 +0000

Six more reasons to like Canada: “The more we think about it, the more we like Canada’s prospects for the long-term. Here’s what we’re thinking.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/mount-up-why-we-like-canada-2009-2

By: Born in the USA

Born in the USA — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:26:38 +0000

Poll says Most Americans want Canadian-style health care system: “The Canadian health care system is attracting attention from the American public as well as corporations. In fact, six out of 10 Americans polled last year said they would prefer a system like Canada’s to that of the United States.

What does their response really mean? Consumers are sending a two-pronged message: “I am incredibly frustrated. There must be something better out there,” says researcher Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D., chairman of health policy and management at the Harvard University School of Public Health
Last year, Blendon teamed up with Louis Harris & Associates and surveyed Americans, Britons, and Canadians for their views on their respective health care systems. The study, funded by The Baxter Foundation, found that there’s little Americans like about their pluralistic health care system.
Nine out of 10 U.S. respondents said the country’s health care industry requires fundamental change or a complete rebuilding.
The American public wants the federal government to reassume its leadership role in defining and directing U.S. health policy, Blendon concludes.
“Uncle Sam will get involved in health policy issues again,” he predicts. “The government is going to have to play a role in some of these issues, in dealing with the uninsured and costs. Maybe it will be a mandated insurance plan with tough teeth in it. But I’m sure we’ll figure an American way out of this problem.”
Perhaps the most surprising survey finding is that Americans’ disenchantment with their medical delivery system is universal. Insured and uninsured. Executives and unskilled workers. Rich and poor. All said they’d prefer another system to that now in place in the United States.
For many Americans, the shortcomings of the U.S. health care delivery system manifest themselves not in national statistics but in personal experience. Of the three countries surveyed in the recent Harvard/Lou Harris poll, only the United States has constructed economic barriers to obtaining needed medical treatment. Two thirds of respondents saying they needed care in the past year but did not get it, 58 percent said the reason was a lack of money or insurance.
Even among those with comprehensive coverage, consumers are all too aware of how thin the line is separating them from the estimated 37 million Americans with no health insurance and no means of paying for even routine procedures, let alone a catastrophic illness, says Blendon.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0903/is_n7_v7/ai_8143615