Getting There from Here: How should Obama reform health care?
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay. In Australia, a 1954 letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald sought help for a young woman who had lung disease. She couldn’t afford to refill her oxygen tank, ... Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
My only concern is that there be a private system in parallel so one isn't forced into it. Since the U.S. currently trys to force seniors into medicare by denying social security pensions to those who refuse, I don't have my hopes up. In Canada private medicine is outlawed except for dogs and cats. Thus, they come here to get off the waiting list.