Comments on: Forget about Canada, we can do better!

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Moneyed Politicians — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:09:39 +0000

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Fri, 22 May 2009 10:38:17 +0000

[...] that is; they now manufacture more cars in Canada because they only pay $800 per employee. And 80% of Canadians prefer their healthcare system to ours, even with their wait times. But since we spend twice what [...]

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MoneyedPoliticians — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:40 +0000

Thanks Mark. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Canada, and the only bad one is wait times. But if Canada would increase their spending by just 10% they could eliminate even those waits. And they’d still be at 11% of GDP versus our 16%.

Seems like a no-brainer, but our politicians are on the take from the healthcare industry.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:51 +0000

Being a Canadian I’m fully aware of the good & bad sides of our health care system. I’ve read extensively about our & other countries health care system & what it really boils down to is one question:
How much money are we willing to pay to have a system take care of all of our peoples. Rich and poor, young and old.
Well suffice to say that although the U.S.A. might be a great place to live, if you don’t have any money, don’t get sick…
Yes the UK and Canada have a “socialistic” health care system and it does have its faults but try explaining that to your US counterpart who is broke, needs to be operated on and is systematically being told:
Sorry old chap, too bad about your disease but since you don’t have the dough, you won’t get the treatment…

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MoneyedPoliticians — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:40:19 +0000

Thanks John, and you are absolutely right. The insurance industry knows they are on the way out, but anything they can do to delay the inevitable adds dollars to their bottom line. The longer the delay, the more they profit. What is terribly disturbing is the way they are achieving the delay: by paying off the politicians. They are working for us but taking money from them! And thanks for the added coverage on your blog. Hopefully these jerks will someday feel ashamed enough to fix the campaign finance system.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:15:03 +0000

For me, when you wrote: “But the insurance industry doesn’t like simple; complexity is more profitable,” it really comes down to this simple ploy to delay and confuse the obvious.

In attempting to get your message out there, I featured parts of your solution at my blog as well, along with links.

The “government is bad” argument only reinforces the fact that Republicans don’t have the ability to make it better. Using a health care analogy: Instead of making the sick patient healthy and productive, we kill them. It sure cuts down on the costs.

By: MoneyedPoliticians

MoneyedPoliticians — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:45:09 +0000

Kevin, there is no question that Medicare must be improved, as I have previously said. But private "for-profit" healthcare is in even worse shape than Medicare. I don't know what business you are in, but my last 35 years has been in the health care industry. Study the links in the Health Care Resources page. Understand the whole issue, including that our current costs are more than twice those of every other country in the world. Understand that we are already paying the costs of a single-payer system, we just aren't getting one because part of our payments are also funding profiteering. The way we can afford it is to pay for it differently than we are today, which means eliminating the costly insurance bureaucracy. That allows us to spend that wasted 31% on health care rather than make-work to pad the pockets of the executives. Read what I said above:

"For the same amount of dollars we are spending today, we could provide first-class care to 100% of our population, employed and unemployed, and we’d eliminate COBRA and the tie to employers."

We can't afford NOT TO provide universal health care. Our nation's economy depends on it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:24:52 +0000

Jack, you’re just a socialist at heart and have done little real study of the world’s programs.
We cannot pay for Medicare as the cost is rising twice as fast as the GNP, how will we pay for a full blown govnermental boondoggle like national health.