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1 palomino  Wed, Mar 9, 2011 10:45:38am

Nice cherry picking. The Canadian system isn’t perfect, so what? Canadians live longer than Americans, so clearly their health care system must be completely fucked up, right?

2 macondo5  Wed, Mar 9, 2011 10:56:21am

palomino: This is not cherry picking and no one said the system is completely fucked up. As a Canadian I appreciate our health care system in many respects, but there are many serious problems too. Please don’t belittle the hardships of many Canadian patients who wait for months for an MRI (my mother had to wait 4 months to learn about a brain aneurysm), can’t find a family doctor, are forced to wait YEARS for orthopedic surgery, etc.

3 palomino  Wed, Mar 9, 2011 11:09:07am

I’m not belittling any Canadian’s wait for anything. I don’t know where you’d get that in my comments. Nor am I suggesting their system is perfect.

But the type of example you cite is often blown out of proportion by the American right when they suggest that any system other than the one we’ve currently got will lead to a parade of horribles. It’s an unfortunate aspect of today’s right in the US that they refuse to even consider the possibility that Canadians, Europeans, east Asians might do anything that we could learn from.

Bottom line: the Canadian system, as well as those in Europe, can’t be as bad as we are told by conservatives given the fact that people in ALL of those countries live longer than Americans. Maybe their wait times on some surgeries are too long, but they must be doing something right, no? US conservatives, however, won’t even acknowledge that simple possibility.

4 macondo5  Wed, Mar 9, 2011 12:28:08pm

“The Canadian system isn’t perfect, so what?” Would you say “so what?” to the mother with breast cancer referred to in the linked article? I dare say she’d find that comment to be belittling her very serious struggle.


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