Cancer Treatment Options Forum - October 7th, 2010 - 2 Comments
If Obama implements Universal Healthcare, will our newpaper headlines read like Canada?
Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.
Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec’s law that prohibits private medical insurance.
Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients
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- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080327/quebec_dentists_080327/20080327?hub=Health
Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system
- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]
Why Ontario keeps sending patients south
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- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]
Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?
- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]
Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report
- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]
The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care
- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]
Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered
- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]
BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long for Hip and Knee Surgery Costs ,000 Per Patient-Maximum Wait Times Should Be No Longer Than 6 Months
- June 28, 2006 [CCN Matthews]
Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+
- March 17, 2006 [CTV.ca]
Canada inches toward private medicine
- Rebecca Cook Dube, August 8, 2005 [CS Monitor]
Doctor defends private cancer clinic
- Gillian Livingston, July 15, 2005 [Canadian Press]
The problem is Universal health care isn’t Universal.
As far as I could tell he wants to give everyone free health care except my wife and I.
Obama, blessed be his name, will implement a perfect system, because he is a perfect being. Stop the hate speech. Admit it you just hate people with dark skin, don’t you? Why don’t you just put on your white robes and go to your klan meeting? You listen to that racist Limbaugh don’t you? he doesn’t like or respect the constitution, and we will shut him down.
Just thought I’d beat the liberals to the punch, lol.