Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience

Rating:
Summary: Paradise in Canada?
Review: What we can learn from the Canadian experience is best summarized in the following excerpt from Canada's McCleans weekly magazine March 1 1999:

"For Canadians in need of urgent medical care, the nation's hospitals all too often appear to be in a state of crisis. Horror stories abound--of patients turned away from hospitals, of cancelled surgeries, and cancer patients flown across the country or to the United States for treatment that cannot be delivered closer to home. In Toronto, a 45-year-old cystic fibrosis victim missed out on an urgently needed double lung transplant on Feb. 3; the operation had to be cancelled--and the donated lungs discarded -- because no bed or nursing crew could be found."

Articles abound in McCleans as well as the New York Times, Forbes, etc. in the US about Canada's failing system. Forbes reports Canadian doctors leaving Canada in droves. In fact, skilled people in general are leaving Canada's failed welfare state for the US.

To complete the socialist model perhaps in the authors next book Mr. Armstrong could discuss how the US revert to a command and control economy - you know, like the ones that were so successful in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Rating:
Summary: For US citizens, especially
Review: What we can learn from the Canadian experience is best summarized in the following excerpt from Canada's McCleans weekly magazine March 1 1999:

"For Canadians in need of urgent medical care, the nation's hospitals all too often appear to be in a state of crisis. Horror stories abound--of patients turned away from hospitals, of cancelled surgeries, and cancer patients flown across the country or to the United States for treatment that cannot be delivered closer to home. In Toronto, a 45-year-old cystic fibrosis victim missed out on an urgently needed double lung transplant on Feb. 3; the operation had to be cancelled--and the donated lungs discarded -- because no bed or nursing crew could be found."

Articles abound in McCleans as well as the New York Times, Forbes, etc. in the US about Canada's failing system. Forbes reports Canadian doctors leaving Canada in droves. In fact, skilled people in general are leaving Canada's failed welfare state for the US.

To complete the socialist model perhaps in the authors next book Mr. Armstrong could discuss how the US revert to a command and control economy - you know, like the ones that were so successful in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.