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 Derek Hawkins - Jun. 9, 2009

The author makes the disingenuous claim that America is "rushing into a system of government-dominated health care" to make his case. The likely outcome of health care reform will combine public and private insurance options. Some of his points are compelling -- cancer survival rates in the States and Canada -- but others are the exaggerations we see from single-payer opponents.

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