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Single Payer Health Systems

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murphyj87

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3. The same applies...
Fri Dec 23, 2011, 12:50 PM
Dec 2011

The same applies in Canada, where every single Canadian, rich or poor, young or old, gets far better health care than the average middle class American has.

Canada has a government funded, physician-run health care system where every Canadian can see a physician when they need to, and get whatever the health care that their physician says they need, in Canada.

The United States has an insurance-run health care system, where insurance company bureaucrats are wedged between Americans and American physicians. Insurance company bureaucrats decide which few Americans can see a physician when the need to. Insurance company bureaucrats, not physicians, decide which few Americans get treated, and what little treatment those few get, and how many million Americans will have to go to Canada to get the health care they need, since it is denied them by insurance company bureaucrats in the United States.

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