 cptenaud says: Go to source to see comments. Some Americans trying to tell Canadians what they have no idea about. When did we get so arrogant and stupid at the same time? When we were born as "humans"  This is a one sided clipped site that is trying to prevent a two tier system allowing out of pocket medical payments for Canadians. I bet they are not biased in their survey about all the happy Canadians with government health care. When did we get so arrogant and stupid at the same time?Not all of us, just the idiots on the right who like to make stuff up. Canadians are aghast at the notion of having a medical system modeled after the U.S. medical system. As testified by an American doctor who did his residency in Canada, where his decisions for treatment of his patients was neither dictated, mandated, or interfered with. Quote: "A backlash against U.S. criticism has erupted in cyberspace. It's one thing for the British to criticize their National Health Service, quite another for Yanks to malign it." See: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-health15-2009aug15,0,2736574.story "A smear campaign in another country, based on misinformation and falsehoods, is simply not cricket, the British say. The GOP claimed "Under their socialized system, if your treatment costs more, you're out of luck,” the ad's narrator says as the spot cuts back and forth from weeping elderly people to Big Ben and the British flag. Then the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) made the claim “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” Hawking is, of course, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and quite British. In Denmark we have public healthcare. You CAN choose (semi-) private health care too, though. (Group 2) and pay as you go, though you'll still be covered for a large portion of the cost, (hence the "semi". Even groups 2'ers don't have to foot the whole bill themselves.) . The Danes are overwhelmingly satisfied with the full public option though, with 97.6% choosing to be insured in Group 1. Over 90% of people here are fully satisfied with the health care system and it costs half of what Americans pay and no one, NO ONE, goes with out the care they need. http://www.im.dk/publikationer/healthcare_in_dk/c4.htm Watch this video before you get locked on to Government health care. If you dare to consider all sides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg When people can't even GET health care in the US, I would call that the mother of all waiting lines! They wait forever and in vain, even! I can't speak for other countries, but we have more doctors per person than America does.(3.6 vs 2.6 pr 1000 patients.) The population wouldn't be so satisfied if things were as bad as you claim. Despite the way some Americans like to demonize public health care, we still manage to live longer, our child mortality rate is lower etc. It also seems disingenuous to me, that opponents of public health care cherry pick the worst examples they can find and refuse to look at countries like Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, France etc and NOT be able to see... Jay8 You tell me my source is bias. Then you give me John Stossel. He happens to be backed by Republican hacks. Could this be proof enough of how biased he really is? http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2894 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1575 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1134 So much more about this wanabe Limbaugh dude. But you wouldn’t read it anyway. Because your just a lazy flag waving pretend patriot. I can see you don't like opposing arguments. Well, then, how about this one. She is not biased, unless you think so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKuYRaNN12k&feature=fvw And you like our system. Then you keep it. But let others have the freedom to choose something different And this from another Canadian that you would disagree with. Even though you know not what you are talking about. It is imperfect - it can be improved - and yet - MOST Canadians still support it! In fact, the guy that invented it - and saw it become law - was named as the most important Canadian ever - in a nation-wide poll looking for our choice as the "greatest Canadian" ever. Go figure! We do live longer than Americans, we do have lower infant mortality than Americans - and we spend almost half as much of our GDP on health-care - compared to Americans. And NO Canadian has ever bee... I second all of that! from Silvana, aberta! @cptenaud - Keep up the good fight. I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about. We don't have national health care. We want national health care. (And we will get national health care). The sideshow, I suppose, is how rabid, unfactual, full of hate and fear the Republican opposition is. Hate and fear is their prime political tactic, the politics of destruction. BTW, I love the Mark Twain quote. I'll have to give it a try. |
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