Comments on: How’s That Government-run Health Care Working Out Canada?

By: rw kent,usa

rw kent,usa — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:40:43 +0000

Was it wise for Obama to push for a Goverment Run Health Care instead of Insurance Regulations?

We'll never know. Or is Health Care like Kennedy and Vietnam. Kennedy wanted to end the war, and when he died, like within days the paper work was shredded and Johnson keep it up three more years. Just to make people rich. Would that apply to Obama plan too? We'll never know.

By: Jim, Northville

Jim, Northville — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:47:36 +0000

It's pretty silly to say national healthcare "doesn't work". Of course it works – people in those countries with nationalized healthcare get care, go to the hospital, can get drugs, etc.

The system in the US does WORK as well. The question is just which works better. Well, if nothing else, in systems with nationalized health care they don't have enormous amounts of bankruptcies caused by health care bills, and thousands of deaths due to a lack of coverage.

By: Nina, Michigan

Nina, Michigan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:59:41 +0000

I don't believe these reports about unhappy citizens with government run healthcare systems. I worked at the airport and came in contact with thousands of people from countries with government run healthcare, and had opportunity to talk with them about it. I have not met one, not one person that says what our media keeps saying that they say about their healthcare. So I am left to conclude they have paid some of these people to say these things for their benefit. My son goes to a University and told me the same thing about the Canadian Students what they say about it. I asked for the pro's and con's. There was one thing they mentioned, however, none of them would change it back just because of that one issue. They said it was in dealing with specialist, otherwise it was terrific. How come I met thousands of foreigners happy with their healthcare and not one told me these things our media keeps hollering? I think those running our healthcare system would like to keep being able to keep scraping us of billions and just don't want to rock this boat.

By: Bobbie Jay

Bobbie Jay — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:23:19 +0000

CHECK OUT GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS ON INSURANCE COMPANIES. ALL COMPANIES FOR THAT MATTER. DELIBERATELY DISALLOWING FREE MARKET OF ABILITY TO RUN INDEPENDENTLY. MORE GOVERNMENT, LESS FREEDOM.

MORE GOVERNMENT, MORE CORRUPTION! THE PRESIDENT CRIES OF ALL HE HAS INHERITED WHILE GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO MANUFACTURE MORE CRISIS!

By: Bobbie Jay

Bobbie Jay — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:17:32 +0000

NOTICE YOU DON'T HEAR FROM THE INSURANCE COMPANIES? BECAUSE GOVERNMENT HAS INTERVENED FOR YEARS! WE NEED STRONGER, HONEST, FREE MARKET INSURANCE COMPANIES. ONES THAT AREN'T DRIVEN INTO TEMPTATION. ONES THAT DON'T NEED GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION OR DEPENDENCE. THOSE ARE THE HONEST FREE MARKET BUSINESSES. NO GOVERNMENT NECESSARY BUT TO DO THEIR JOB IN OVERSIGHT BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS SO DISHONEST DO WE REALLY WANT THEIR OVERSIGHT?

By: Bobbie Jay

Bobbie Jay — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:06:34 +0000

Joe, you don't think you'll be fighting with GOVERMENT? Please, save yourself. If there is a complaint about your insurer that cannot be resolved, you have the government oversight committee. Who is obviously negligible in conducting this part of their government duty to result this deception as a crisis. Insisting it's all insurance as government never holds themselves accountable to their idiotic failures wasting our time and money going nowhere but down. Government bribes and set-ups while insurances taking the heat. Just like AIG,the auto companies, ETC.

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:50:08 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:02:48 +0000

@Greg: Whether there are 10 million (as you assert) or ~50 million (as numerous experts — namely, not you — assert) is irrelevant. Not everyone is covered. Furthermore, you did not refute my second point: When paying for a service (health insurance) why should someone then have to fight with the provider (the insurer) to get the service they paid for? Especially when that service is health care? It's a system set up to be adversarial … and to fail.

By: BizzyBlog

BizzyBlog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:32:56 +0000

By: Norman C., Calgary,

Norman C., Calgary, — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:34:29 +0000

While vacationing in the U.S. I had occasion to take my grandson to hospital in Salt lake city and altho' I had private insurance but I had to pay upfront for the service. I went straight back to Canada and took my grandson to the first hospital I came to and he was treated straight away, no billing even tho' I was registered in another Province. Trying to get the insurance company to pay for the American treatment was like pulling hens' teeth,they came up with all sorts of excuses like not having an itemised bill from the American hospital.I tried to get one but they had excuses too.

I never did get paid for the service I had paid for before leaving Canada.

I'm satisfied with the Canadian system,it has served me well over the years.