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 Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 9, 2009

This story equates Canadian health care with "government-dominated" health care with no attempt at discussing the different systems available around the world and with no attempt at analyzing the reasons for its problems.

A more balanced story would mention both strengths and weaknesses of a variety of systems, mentioning the strengths and weaknesses of our current system.

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