In his Townhall column this week, American Walter E. Williams writes about the horror show that is Canada’s healthcare system.
Liberals and the liberal-left here have been so successful in lying to Canadians about our healthcare system and actually convincing many citizens (all of them liberal-left) that it is actually a “good system” that we have here. And now some of that misplaced enthusiasm for socialism has dripped south to the socialists (socialist-lite) there too—Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy and others, who have fallen for the political bunk being spread by the liberal-left in Canada.
No, sorry—change that. As life-long politicians, they’ve cottoned onto the political benefits of once again lying to citizens about something that sounds good and gets votes by sucking people in with promises of more free stuff, and which of course helps their political careers and their quest for their liberal-leftist fundamentalism, just like it does here—but it actually hurts or kills people.
And liberals are in favour of that.
[…] As reported in a December 2003 story by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled “Access Denied: Canada’s Healthcare System Turns Patients into Victims,” in some instances, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. Canada’s Prime Minister Paul Martin responded to the court’s decision saying, “We’re not going to have a two-tier healthcare system in this country. What we want to do is strengthen the public healthcare system.” That’s the standard callous political response. He’s telling Canadians to continue waiting, continue suffering and perhaps dying until the day comes when there’s no more waiting. And though Canadian politicians can’t give their citizens a date certain when there’ll be no more waiting, they’re determined to deny them alternatives to waiting for government-provided healthcare. I’d bet you the rent money that Prime Minister Martin and members of the Canadian Parliament don’t have to wait months and years for a medical procedure.
I wonder just how many Americans would like to import Canada’s healthcare system, which prohibits the purchase of private insurance and private healthcare services. In British Columbia, for example, Bill 82 provides that a physician can be fined up to $20,000 for accepting fees for surgery. In my book, it’s medical Naziism for government to prohibit a person who wishes to purchase medical services from doing so.
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