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This has been my experience with Canadians. Basically the ones who can afford healthcare in this country will elect to partake in it because it is simply superior here. Those who can't afford it will take whatever Canada gives them.
No, you are believing a fallacy...US health care is NOT superior. Perhaps it once was, but those days are gone.
In the World Health Organization's rankings of health care system performance among 191 member nations published in 2000, Canada ranked 30th and the U.S. 37th, while the overall health of Canadians was ranked 35th and Americans 72nd.....Take note that this was in the year 2000, and Canada's health care has improved since then...Has yours?
U.S. health care lies about Canada - Diane Francis (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/05/12/health-care-lies-about-canda.aspx - broken link)
I am not certain that there are *that* many empty beds in the US, either.
Why would a recession lead to empty beds? Americans are out of work and/or have reduced income and can't afford surgeries - so they are going without? Hobbling around because they can't afford treatment? That's not a ringing endorsement of the US system.
Shhhh, this doesn't play into the universal health care playbook. Let's all repeat together "Canadas system is far superior to the US system and the closest to heaven on Earth".
I don't think anyone says that. The US health care is the best in the world for those who can afford the best aspects of it. Where the Canadian system is better is in providing good coverage for everybody. We have failed miserably at that in the US (we've been ranked 39th overall).
So, it's logical that the wealthier Canadians would pay for an upgrade to the best of the best aspects of our health care, and it's also logical that many would see their system as superior in providing good coverage to all residents.
The key effort of Obama's Health Care Law was to maintain the best for those who can afford it and filling in the gaps to get decent coverage to those who can't.
I don't think anyone says that. The US health care is the best in the world for those who can afford the best aspects of it.
An unfortunate fact there is that "those who can afford the best aspects of it" sometimes include citizens of UHC nations who where the average citizen can get access to the best the USA has got if it is medically necessary.
It does not include the average American, where access is prioritized by insurance and wealth. It is an unfortunate setup where the "best" can be more available to foreigners than Americans.
This has been my experience with Canadians. Basically the ones who can afford healthcare in this country will elect to partake in it because it is simply superior here. Those who can't afford it will take whatever Canada gives them.
The problem here is not health care providers but health insurance companies. Anyway, the Canadians you speak of, are still being covered by their government. Meanwhile in Arizona...
Because the system you're replacing with it is worse.
I don't think copying another system is a solution. But some of the practices in the US system are madness and need urgent attention. For example:
"Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Harvard did a study comparing Canada and the U.S. looking at what it costs employers, providers, doctors and hospitals and the insurance mechanism and compared Canada and the US, and they found that we in 1999, spent $300 billion on administration for all these three functions, and that was about 24 percent of national health spending"
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