Take it from someone who’s been through it:
My opinion about the risks of a Canadian style medical system is related to the general American fear that the government may abuse the rights of individuals. In an all-out political battle between different interest groups, there are fewer checks and balances in Canada than in the United States. The health system is a weapon in such circumstances.
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He has a good point. It’s not just the healthcare, it’s the power of government over a massive part of the economy.
The hospital closure is not the only thing Quebec tried to do to the docs. There was the time they tried to force private docs to work in the provincial ER’s.
http://www.cmaj.ca/news/26_07_02.shtml
You’re just getting warmed up. Quebec is (was) the most physician-hostile health ministry in the country at the time I left.
Then, depending on the administration, it may get worse. My friends tell me that things are better now. I’m not sure what that means.
Medical facism is a real threat. Government run healthcare systems are an integral part ot the police state in all totalitarian or fascist societies. If the American people are too stupid to see that or want their freebies so much that they don’t care, then they deserve to lose their freedom.
It puzzles me that the more extreme leftists who see G.W. Bush as a totalitarian dictator abusing the power of the state, are those most virulently clamouring to give over to the state the power over their healthcare and access to their intimate medical records. Cognitive dissonance abounds.
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