Canada Beginning to Privatize Health Care System

[dazzleman]

Interesting news.  I have never believed in a public health care system, but it's always been presented as inevitable at some point in the future.  It's interesting to see a country that presently has one starting to have some doubts about it in certain areas.

[dazzleman]

Interesting news.  I have never believed in a public health care system, but it's always been presented as inevitable at some point in the future.  It's interesting to see a country that presently has one starting to have some doubts about it in certain areas.

^^^^^^

I can't wait to see what Earl has to say about this!

We don't have doubts, we just have people who don't believe in it, and are trying to change things by putting doubt in our minds. Health care reform is necessary, but privitization is not necessarily the answer.

Maybe, but since Canada is an oft-cited example by those in the US who claim that going to a public system will solve all our problems, it does tend to undermine that line of thinking.

[dazzleman]

No system is perfect, but most are better than the American system. Well, at least if you're poor. If you are rich, the American health care system is the best in the world.

Well, you hit the nail on the head, sort of.  The American system works relatively well for the majority of people who have coverage.  And this majority is essentially not willing to degrade their own health care quality to help the minority without coverage.