Meanwhile, in the Canadian Supreme Court...
While we're debating whether to Federalize health care in the United States, Canadians are debating whether to allow more privitization. A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision ruled that private health insurers must be allowed to do business in Quebec, repeating many of the criticisms you've heard before about long waiting lists for services, etc.
Filtering through several very pointed articles on the Chaoulli v Quebec decision, I found this fairly impartial analysis of the (100+ page) decision from the Ontario Medical Assocation:
http://www.oma.org/pcomm/OMR/jun/05quebec.htm
I'll admit my prejudices are against establishing a huge Federal health care bureaucracy, but I'll also admit I'm just starting to educate myself on this issue.
I don't think advocates of single-payer healthcare can just brush off the awful stories about rationing of healthcare that goes on in countries that have established government-run medicine. And opponents of single-payer healthcare can't just brush off the problem that there are people with inadequate healthcare in this country.
posted by Mike Laursen @ 11:11 PM
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Note that the OMA article has an HTML error: s.7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is labeled with the bullet, "1". It can lead to some confusion when reading the rest of the article.
I think everyone should have healthcare. I don't think there's anything wrong with what Canada is doing to improve their situation.
I'm not sure what the current advocates are saying about American health care but if I remember correctly, the health care plan proposed by Clinton was not a single payer plan. I'd have to go back and read up on it but I recall it being fairly complicated.
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