Another doctor speaks to the purposeful mythology surrounding the prospect of government-run healthcare in America such as that in Canada’s North Korean-style system. This is from Dr. David Gratzer, a physician and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who was born and raised in Canada, writing in the Wall Street Journal.
Congressional Democrats will soon put forward their legislative proposals for reforming health care. Should they succeed, tens of millions of Americans will potentially be joining a new public insurance program and the federal government will increasingly be involved in treatment decisions.
Not long ago, I would have applauded this type of government expansion. Born and raised in Canada, I once believed that government health care is compassionate and equitable. It is neither.
My views changed in medical school. Yes, everyone in Canada is covered by a “single payer”—the government. But Canadians wait for practically any procedure or diagnostic test or specialist consultation in the public system. …
He goes on to explain how in Canada, in order to fix the system, we’re increasingly turning to the private sector—having also relied upon the Americans themselves, and their private system, to offset our wait lists and healthcare rationing. He seems to wonder why the Obamtons would behave so utterly irrationally in the face of facts and science and proof and logic and history and common sense and the clarity before them.
So do I.
It’s pure ideology at work in the U.S., just as Canada’s utterly failed healthcare system is based on pure socialist ideology.
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