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Sol Invictus
10-25-2010, 05:42 PM
Market Watch
October 25, 2010

In Canada, rising health-care costs are prompting a call for changes to the country's popular public program. The Chamber of Commerce is making its case for a greater role for the private sector. MarketWatch's Kristen Gerencher reports from Calgary, Alberta.

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anonymaus
10-25-2010, 06:09 PM
Canada's healthcare system is somewhat effective at treating the well; the sick, on the other hand, will find their treatment somewhat wanting. Allowing greater private competition beneath the umbrella of the single payer system is an idea that's been pinballing around the body politic for at least two decades. It has always seemed like a perfectly reasonable suggestion although I've never been convinced of its effectiveness in reducing costs or increasing quality of care. In order to do that, one would need to fix the mistake of single payer AND avoid recreating America's incestuous government-insurance orgy afterward--not an easy task.

poiuytrewq0987
10-25-2010, 06:25 PM
So much for the wonders of socialized medicine. If you leave it up to a couple bureaucrats to decide what treatments you need to get then it WILL take forever for you to get treated. What they should do is decentralize the system so every province will be responsible of their people and what treatments they should get. So they can get quicker treatment that way. And if the person is seriously ill then he shouldn't have to wait for approval from the provincial bureaucracy.