Next time the Republicans say the Canadian Healthcare System is broken...

[Jim Beard]

Shove this in their face.

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/new-poll-shows-canadians-overwhelmingly-support-public-health-care/

A new poll conducted by the Toronto-based Nanos Research points to overwhelming support — 86.2 percent — for strengthening public health care rather than expanding for-profit services.

“With more than 8 in 10 Canadians supporting public solutions to make public health care stronger, there is compelling evidence that Canadians across all demographics would prefer a public over a for-profit health care system,” said Nik Nanos, president of Nanos Research.

Nanos Research was commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition (CHC), a nonpartisan group that supports Canada’s public health system, to conduct a random telephone survey of 1,001 Canadians between April 25 and May 3. The margin of accuracy for a sample of 1,001 is ±3.1 percentage points.

Meanwhile, Canada’s government just released a report titled “Healthy Canadians — A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2008.” Its findings almost identically mirror the CHC polling results. In that report, a leading indicator points to the fact that “Most Canadians (85.2 percent) aged 15 years and older reported being ‘very satisfied’ or ‘somewhat satisfied’ with the way overall health care services were provided, unchanged from 2005.”

[Jarqui]

1. These GOP a**holes talk about jobs

Go with single payer and you chop healthcare costs 10-15% while places like Canada have better life expectancy and lower infant mortality ... you know, one of those benefits that don't show up on a GOP price performance bottom line: less people die.

And when those healthcare costs are lower and workers are healthier because they're all covered, guess what happens? The cost to employ them is lower - allowing the US workforce to be more competitive world wide - which will bring jobs home - what Trump claims he'd like to do.

This debate, like so many GOP debates, is so riddled with BS, it's impossible to make sense of it beyond the GOP focused on helping the wealthy.

[Jim Beard]

2. We are getting better at confronting them because they are losing the arguments .

Now we need to pressure them as just how will being able to have insurance across state lines really cost less. They just throw shit out without CNN holding their feet to the fire!

[Jarqui]

3. When you don't control the House, Senate, Supreme Court or

Oval Office, it's disheartening - like "wait until the next hacked election ..."

I know, I know. Bad attitude. But we're in a tough spot

[Cosmocat]

4. Even more directly

Our EMPLOYER based health care system.

If their bullshit had the first lick of consistency they would be primarily focused on taking the burden of providing health care of of employers.

Plus, their hyperbolic blathering "the economy will be super charged by the innovation that would occur once people would not be forced to work for other people!"

[Kimchijeon]

5. Fuck those repukes.

Any Canadian or UK citizen would be disgusted at what we have to pay for a basic human right.

Sure, there might be petty complaints and bitching, as there always is about a govt. run service.
But who in there right mind would say "oh fuck the free healthcare I get, let me go bankrupt and/or die in the gutter because I have to pay inflated garbage prices to corporate health insurance shit-sharks."

Yeah, No one says that. Fuck those liars.

[dalton99a]

6. "As far as single payer, it works in Canada,

it works incredibly well in Scotland." - Donald Trump, August 6, 2015.