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November 29, 2003
Failures Of Canadian Health Care
There are those in the United States who would like for us to nationalize the health care system into something similar to Canada's. I'm not one of them. Back when I was one of the blurry-eyed business travellers it seemed that every time I flew into Canada there was local newspaper story devoted to somebody suffering due to health care rationing. Since then I've read several stories about cancer patients waiting weeks or months to begin treatment, the lack of newer medical devices such as MRI's, 40% fewer medications, and the Canadian government paying to send people to the United States for treatment.
Robert Prather of the Insults Unpunished blog points to a piece on Steve Verdon's Deinonychus Antirrhopus blog about the Canadian healthcare system. Steve links to sites relating to the lack of MRI's in the country.
So don't be surprised when I rank Presidential candidates on their health care policies that those advocating a Canadian-like system will be marked down. For those in the Huntington's Disease community we need to make sure our health care system remains on the leading edge of technology. Health care rationing always leads to less spending for "incurable" diseases such as Huntington's.
P.S. In case there is any question, while I don't like Canada's health care system I love visiting the country.
Posted by Dave at November 29, 2003 06:22 PM
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