Health care in Canada

[Bob Goodman]

 

What's a co-pay?  Canadians Talk About Their Healthcare System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFX32Ed7ZQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%

 

Of course, Canada's healthcare system has its problems (which have been greatly exaggerated by opponents of healthcare reform in this country).  There are waiting lists for non-emergency and elective procedures, for instance.  But keep these things in mind:  (1) Canada is on a higher rung on the spiral.  Its problems are taking place in a system which provides good healthcare to everybody; our much more serious problems happen in a system which doesn't insure 50 million people.  (2) Canadians are trying to solve their problems; ours get worse by the year.  As a Canadian nurse said at a talk several months ago, "Our problems are like warts; yours are cancers."  Here's an article which gives a pretty balanced view of healthcare in our northern neighbor:

 

Don't Get Sick!

http://www.truthout.org/082709A