Canadians on American-style health care: 'Oh Hell No'

[marmar]

from the Globe and Mail:



Canadians back ‘public solutions' to improve care, poll finds

André Picard
Public Health Reporter

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Last updated on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 02:49AM EDT


An overwhelming 86 per cent of Canadians favour “public solutions” for bolstering medicare, according to a new poll.

The survey, commissioned by the Canadian Health Coalition, is being released Wednesday as a pre-emptive strike.

That is because the Canadian Medical Association, at its coming general council meeting, plans to stage a high-profile discussion about transforming medicare, and it will release its own poll on support for privately delivered care.

Michael McBane, national co-ordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition, said he has no doubt that poll will show strong support for “privatization schemes” but the “language used in the CMA survey was so vague and misleading that its results cannot possible be interpreted as support for more for-profit medicine.”

He said that the outgoing CMA president, Robert Ouellet, operates private medical imaging clinics and is promoting a personal agenda that is out of step with Canadian values. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canadians-back-public-solutions-to-improve-care-poll-finds/article1248727/

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. No one is safe from the corporations and their lobbyists. If I was a canuck, I'd

rather have US keep the status quo so the corps dont go marching in to canada looking for things to privatize.

[BlueIdaho]

2. No industrialized nation on the planet

Wants our fucked up health care system. No one.

[baldguy]

3. What would be a good advocacy ad

Have several people, one after another talk about how wonderful their healthcare is, that it covers everything, doesn't cost a whole lot & gives them peace of mind and takes a huge burden off them & their family, both financially & psychologically.

Then have them each come back to say "I live in Canada."

And at the end say "America needs national healthcare. Now."

[marmar]

4. Agreed.....But those on our side of this issue never seem to figure these things out.

nt

[snagglepuss]

5. Very wierd that I came across your post because this Canuck here in Toronto

was just wondering how you guys south of the 49th cope with the financial and psychological stress of your healthcare system. I can't imagine having to deal with all that stress. Just the stress of having to read through different insurance plans and figure out what's in the fine print is mind-numbing. I think your ad idea sounds great but I doubt MSM would even run. If MSN were honest brokers Americans would not have misconceptions about Canadian healthcare. :(

[Wednesdays]

6. K&R

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