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In article <35v2eu$757@crl.crl.com> scottn@crl.com (Scott Nesbitt) writes:
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>The solution to lowering health care costs lies in competition, not emulating
>a Canadian system that even they admits does not work.  Since Federal funding
>for health care system is declining (The Fraser Institute, Vancuver), the 
>provinces are moving away from a single-payer model to mixed public and
>private systems.  Ontarios is considering reorganizing along the lines of 
>US HMOs.  Over 65 percent of Canadians now purchase private supplemental
>insurance.  Analysts predict that Canada will reintroduce private health
>insurance within the next five years.  (Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care,
>Bast, Rue, and Wesbury)
>
>Scott
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>Scott Nesbitt             Organel Software 
>scottn@crl.com            Makers of AFS/DFS administration and user tools.

Just for the sake of the newer posters, the above is a bunch of right wing
propaganda.  The Fraser Institute is a right wing tool, which has had to
retract it's own research findings.  The vast majority of Canadians, doctors
included are thrilled with their health care policy and any gov't that 
tampers with it does so at it's peril.  And, we are quite aware of the mess
in health care, down in the US, -and this is probably the single most valuable
propaganda tool used by those protecting our current system.  One good story
about someone in the US with a 'pre existing condition', or without a job
and ruined by healthcosts, goes a long way to persuading Canadians that we
are very lucky to have developed out system differently, and smart too.
We do carry extra  insurance, but just to cover things like private rooms
in hospital-all of might be considered health care, from hang nails, to
kidney transplants, to abortion, to AIDS, and to serious lifelong disease 
are already covered.  
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