Comments on: How universal health care will affect Canada http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/how-universal-health-care-will-affect.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/how-universal-health-care-will-affect.html#comment-81724 Anonymous Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/how-universal-health-care-will-affect-canada.html#comment-81724 Their doctors will be coming here, to shop. If anything, working north of the border might become an attraction to USA docs, with the stronger loonie they have now. Their doctors will be coming here, to shop. If anything, working north of the border might become an attraction to USA docs, with the stronger loonie they have now.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/how-universal-health-care-will-affect.html#comment-81721 Anonymous Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/how-universal-health-care-will-affect-canada.html#comment-81721 This doesnt make any sense. When the US gets socialized medicine and doctor income falls, that will be GOOD for Canada because more doctors will stay there instead of leaving to the USA.<br/><br/>The high pay differential between the two countries is the reason they are leaving Canada. A reduction in that pay differential would result in Canada keeping a lot more of its doctors and getting some back who had left for hte states. This doesnt make any sense. When the US gets socialized medicine and doctor income falls, that will be GOOD for Canada because more doctors will stay there instead of leaving to the USA.

The high pay differential between the two countries is the reason they are leaving Canada. A reduction in that pay differential would result in Canada keeping a lot more of its doctors and getting some back who had left for hte states.

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