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Originally Posted by Cain
I agree everything should be on the table and am surprised you brought it up...as it seems by far the most common refrain is "privatize it" which usually doesn't work, and really means we should be looking elsewhere for a solution.
Why would government be unable to solve it? Most governments in the world with public health...have done just that. By most metrics, the US is worse off than its peers in the health sector, with Canada just above them as well, and your move is to emulate the only system we are better than?
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My argument is that healthcare, regardless of how it’s delivered, always has some problems. It seems that where U.S. healthcare succeeds, public healthcare fails, and where public healthcare succeeds, private healthcare fails. Essentially, we have two extremes, and the solution likely lies somewhere in the middle. As you noted, Canada has quietly moved toward that middle without much fanfare, and the U.S. has already been partly there.
My Friends dad was daignosed with metastatic melanoma, which in Canada is basically a death sentence because the therapies that can prolong your life, the goverment doesn't want to pay for them, so they aren't available.
So after doctors here said there was nothing they can do (this was 12 years ago) he went to the US, got treatment, he is still here today and healthy. If he stayed in Canada he would not be here.
So yes there plenty of stories out of the US but there plenty in Canada. There should be no chest pumping on either side to which is better.