Comparing U.S., Canadian health care systems

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Comparing-U-S--Canadian-h-by-Trudy-Lieberman-Affordable-Care-Act-Aca_Canada_Health-Care-Policy_Healthcare-Reform-140130-149.html



Comparing U.S., Canadian health care systems
General News 1/30/2014 at 18:07:23
By Trudy Lieberman

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One thing Americans and Canadians can agree on is that we don't want each other's health care systems. In truth, most Americans don't know how Canada's system works and Canadians don't know much about the U.S. system.

What Americans know has come mainly from the negative talking points of politicians and others who have argued for years against national health insurance. Two decades ago The New York Times reported that Canadian women had to wait for Pap smears, a point vigorously refuted by the Canadian ambassador who shot back in a letter to the Times editor: "You, and Americans generally, are free to decide whatever health care system to choose, avoid or adapt, but the choice is not assisted by opinions unrelated to fact."

Yes, there are waiting lists for some services -- as I will explain in another post -- but, no, Canadians are not coming across the border in droves to get American care.

There's misinformation among Canadians, too. Wherever I went, Canadians told me they thought, mostly based on what they said they heard on CNN and Fox, that Obamacare meant America was getting universal health coverage like their country has.



unhappycamper comment: Obamacare is based on Rmoneycare which came from heritage.org.

[chervilant]

1. And the ACA will continue

to channel copious amounts of money into insurance companies' coffers.

[hedgehog]

2. I work with Canadians, a Swiss, a Korean and a Brazillan:

The one thing they all have in common: a fascination with how much it costs us personally for health care and how lousy our support systems (paid maternity leave, etc) are!