5 responses

• Chuck Jun 27, 2008
   

  Capitalism for the win! I hope things like this make people take a second look at socialized medicine.

   
• todd Jun 28, 2008
   

  healthiest people in the world: france. medicine: "socialized". chuck: the results are in: the US spends stupid amounts of money to provide terrible care (even to rich people). our system is broken and people who complain about "socialized" medicine are those standing in the way of fixing it.

   
• todd Jun 28, 2008
   

  there are key, important differences between quebec and all of europe, by the way. in quebec private insurance was illegal. in europe there is a hybrid system where *everyone* is guaranteed healthcare, but some people pay insurance in order to get access to care sooner or at better facilities. it works really well.

   
• Chuck Jun 29, 2008
   

  I agree that our system needs work. My comment above was referring to the numbers of people who have tried to use Canada's system as an example of a working socialized medicne system.

   
• todd Jun 30, 2008
   

  quebec's system is very different from the rest of canada's, chuck. overall, the canadian system works very well and *much* better than the US system. the quebequois system did, indeed, have a prohibition against all private health insurance that was struck down by the canadian supreme court last year. since then it has been getting better, too.