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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (313)	1/20/2005 2:08:58 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Canada provides this coverage at a fraction of what the United States pays in health care costs. Americans spend 14 percent of their GDP on health care expenditures; Canadians only 9 percent. Yet despite its high cost, the U.S. system fails to insure more than 44 million of its citizens. Back all 3 of those numbers. This Today there is no "Canadian" health care system, but rather ten separate and distinct provincial health care plans, each designed to meet its population's unique resources and needs. contradicts this in 1966 the federal government passed the Medical Care Act of 1966. Under the terms of medicare, as the Medical Care Act is referred to in Canada, provincial governments must meet five requirements to receive federal funds to help finance their programs The power to fund is the power to run and dictate. We well know that down here. If you don't, it is willful blindness. The bill also prevents patients from paying doctors directly-- the government is the single payer. So you don't have a dual system as in Britain- -you have an entirely socialized sytem with the gov't in complete control because it has the money. This single payer or public administration requirement is what makes the Canadian system so much more efficient The idea that a gov't bureaucracy is more efficient than a private company is too ludicrous to deserve comment. If that were REALLY so, why don't you extend it to have all Canadian farmers, loggers, and miners working for the gov't and REALLY get efficient and put US out of business? the single payer system boasts enormous administrative efficiencies over multiple-payer systems. As a general statement, nuts. It depends on the efficiency of the single payer and the average efficiency if the multiple payers. This is to be proven, not simply claimed. The principles enshrined in the Medical Care Act remain sacred to Canadians. So what? The Commissars loved Communism too. It was good- -for them.