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Originally Posted by peter12
Do you have any evidence of this? I've never seen it. You are totally right to say that the amount of effort to move any Canadian political discourse away from the American example is almost impossible.
I would love to see a healthcare reform debate draw examples from the French or Australians.
You are right that better healthcare would mean more premiums and higher payroll taxes - which is fine by me!
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...are-costs.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lobby...NxTOMAuJe_ERde
"The AMA increased its lobbying budget by 40% this year."
"There’s a reason lobbyists are confined to the front hall of the building. It’s because the sanctity of the legislative body must not be breached. Strange, isn’t it, that we call them legislative bodies? I’d like to keep the AMA and insurance lobbies out of my health care options (and my own body) thank you very much, until we resolve this issue of health care for all of we the people."
https://www.usnews.com/news/national...ealth-coverage
"Even as American political culture helps to explain the health care debate in America, culture is far from the only reason America lacks universal coverage. Another factor that has limited debate about national health insurance is the role of interest groups in influencing the political process. The legislative battle over the content of the ACA, for example, generated $1.2 billion in lobbying in 2009 alone.
The insurance industry was a key player in this process, spending over $100 million to help shape the ACA and keep private insurers, as opposed to the government, as the key cog in American health care."
I can go on and on and on and on...