Good three-minute read today at the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com. I liked their sub-headline because it reminded me of what I wrote in a blog entry a couple weeks ago. I said: “Every time we take our dog to the vet, I’m reminded about how fast and top-notch private health care can be.”
By the way, the author, David Grazer, needs no lessons from Canadian liberals on this subject. He was born and raised in Canada. He’s also the author of “The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” (Encounter, 2006).
In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years.
BY DAVID GRATZER
Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDTTORONTO—“I haven’t seen ‘Sicko,’ ” says Avril Allen about the new Michael Moore documentary, which advocates socialized medicine for the United States. The film, which has been widely viewed on the Internet, and which will officially open in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, has been getting rave reviews. But Ms. Allen, a lawyer, has no plans to watch it. She’s just too busy preparing to file suit against Ontario’s provincial government about its health-care system next month.
Her client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI, and then months more to see a neurologist for his malignant brain tumor. Instead, frustrated and ill, the retired auto-body shop owner traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., for a lifesaving surgery. Now he’s suing for the right to opt out of Canada’s government-run health care, which he considers dangerous.
Ms. Allen figures the lawsuit has a fighting chance: In 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that “access to wait lists is not access to health care,” striking down key Quebec laws that prohibited private medicine and private health insurance.
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