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Originally posted by Cowboy+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowboy)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I just don't think it is right that well to do families should have access to better health care, and that is what happens in the states.[/b]
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I think there just needs to be options. If someone wants to pay more money, so they don't have to wait in line for their health care, I feel they should be able to. I am not saying abandon publicly funded health care either. I said that the best option would be for a balance to be in place. I am against fully privatized health care, but I am also against fully public health care.
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You can afford to pay quality doctors so they do not go to the states, same with nurses. That eliminates your whole staffing argument. Its not like there isn't enough Med grads in Canada they are just going other places.[/quote]
The reason doctors and nurses go to the States? More money. Putting more money into health care doesn't mean that individual doctors/nurses get more money, just means there is more of a pool to draw from. That would mean hiring more people, not giving higher/better wages. Or if you don't hire more people, then the people already working get raises. Yes more money, but it doesn't solve the wait times. So you will have to come up with a better argument than that. Plus, some of that funding has to go towards supplies, over head, building actual building, rent, etc. Oh, and BTW, there are some forms of privatized health care in Canada. They are mainly cosmetic, but they are still private. They just can't have patients stay over night.
And your right, well off families in the States, do get access to some of the best doctors in the world. And people from Canada do go to the States to get certain surgeries done, becuase they 1) They can afford it 2) Don't want to wait 6 months to 2 years to get it done. Why should they have to go to the States? Shouldn't we be able to take care of them in Canada?
Is it not right that families that can afford it, put their children in private schools? Education is pretty important don't you think. Yet no one complains about the 2-tier education system.