Canada's ObamaCare Precedent

Wall Street Journal by David Gratzer | Jun. 9, 2009 (Opinion)
Governments always ration care by making you wait. That can be deadly.

Ironically, as the U.S. is on the verge of rushing toward government health care, Canada is reforming its system in the opposite direction. In 2005, Canada's supreme court struck down key laws in Quebec that established a government monopoly of health services. Claude Castonguay, who headed the Quebec government commission that recommended the creation of its public health-care system in the 1960s, also has second thoughts. Last year, after completing ... Full Story »

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Jun. 9, 2009

The problem with this piece, which looks at the evolution of the Canadian system, is that it's main argument is a strawman. Obama isn't proposing a single payer system, but rather a public/private hybrid model, as far as I can tell.

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