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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Brad Miller NC-13 -- Soaring Costs Force Canada to Reassess Health Model

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Brad Miller's support and subsequent vote that made ObamaCare the law of the land was in part supported by much pointing to Canada's so-called "successful" health-care system.

Reuters:
Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's Provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.

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And a few provinces are also experimenting with private funding for procedures such as hip, knee and cataract surgery.

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Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all "medically necessary" hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets...

One wonders where the cost cuts will originate from. Death Panels?

It is clear that the only system is one where end users and health-care providers are directly linked through monetary exchange. Decoupling these two players leads to the rising costs we have seen since the end of WW2 in the US and furthering that division will only exacerbate the problem.

Canada and Europe are just further down the road and hint o the failure that is ObamaCare.

Brad Miller, a grade school economist, is blind to the obvious.


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