There's No Such Thing as Free Health Care: The costly truth about Canada's health care system
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Posted by Derek Hawkins - Jul 6, 2009 - 8:43 AM PDT
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Derek Hawkins - Jul 6, 2009 - 8:43 AM PDT
Selected opinions and anecdotes that claim Canadian health care is hell care. My many Canadian relatives disagree with Stossel.
Conservative politicians in Canada providing sparse funding for their health care plan and big subsidies to tar sand mining may be a bigger problem to address.
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Cites anecdotal, vs. comprehensive evidence in comparing health systems. Anecdotal evidence isn't as useful when discussion the relative value of different health systems serving millions of people.
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Raises important questions about whether public sponsored health care (in Canada) makes people wait too long for necessary care. Some cherry-picking (anecdotes) and some relying on experts.
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A less than stellar one sided anecdotal piece that does not reflect the system I have seen. BuT I don't claim to be an expert.
Roads aren't free either, I can travel on them anywhere if you look at the map, but at 5:00 PM everyday they travel more than 40 mph below the posted limits, clearly we shouldn't have roads since they don't work (sarcasism intended)/
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