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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Somebody Should Have Told Me This

Just when I figured I should give up on Canadian healthcare and sign up for the NRO cruise I come across this little tidbit.

And let’s not forget that a study by the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine (warning: pdf) estimates that at least 18,000 people die each year from inadequate health coverage. That’s the the equivalent of thirty World Trade Center bombings in the years since 9/11.

Now the head of the Institute of Medicine could be Ramsay Clark for all I know and I’m sure that there are excellent reasons to ignore the study but even if that figure has been exaggerated by a factor of ten...wow.

No Canadian likes the long delays patients face for some procedures but if this study is accurate then I’ll stick with the system I have.

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Rob
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Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands are dying in Scotland due to delays in health care.

Guess which style of health care they have over there, Mike?

Wanna figure out what 462,000 deaths over 26 years works out to per capita between Scotland and the US?

Nobody is claiming that America’s health care system is perfect.  It’s just better than Canada’s.


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Rob on July 3, 2007 at 06:38 pm

No Canadian likes the long delays patients face for some procedures but if this study is accurate then I’ll stick with the system I have.

Then stick with the system you have. We don’t want you down here in the states anyways. We already have enough goofy socialist sycophants. No need for one more.

likwidshoe on July 3, 2007 at 06:42 pm

I can’t top what with respect to using Canada/British healthcare as a model for the healthcare in this country.

Think about it. This is what we’re supposed to copy? The poorest Americans are getting far better service than that. And there’s nothing about Americans that would make us any better able to run a government health care bureaucracy than the Canadians or the British. In fact, we’ve got less practice at that sort of thing than they do—and we might be a lot worse at it.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on July 3, 2007 at 08:16 pm
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