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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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From: TimF	6/25/2009 6:04:31 PM
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Garnet (Replying to: Nylund) June 24, 2009 11:44 AM As a lifelong Canadian I'm rather worried about the U.S. driving out private health care, for my countrymen's own selfish reasons. Experimental or cutting-edge treatments are as a rule unavailable here, typically for budgetary reasons; even MRIs are still in short supply. If you can show you require treatment (to the system's satisfaction; Google the name "Lindsay McCreith" for a troubling story) they'll pay to send you to places like the Mayo Clinic. But any Canuck can see that the U.S. is the world's new-drug and experimental-medicine leader because there are large profits to be had there. If the United States moves to erode that motive, that kind of medical progress will slow or stop, and it won't just be foreigners who lose out as a result. meganmcardle.theatlantic.com

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