Canada's ObamaCare Precedent

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 Joel Kulenkamp - Jun. 10, 2009

Little more than a hack opinion piece; sure the Canadian system is light-years from perfect, but their life expectancy is still longer than that of the US (ditto for all the other industrialized nations).

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