On 4/11/2016 7:20 AM, wrote:
> Canadians regard our
> health care as a Sacred Cow

A FAILED sacred cow - provably!

http://civitasreview.com/healthcare/...its-a-failure/

Just yesterday, I wrote about how unpopular the British healthcare
system has become. Today comes news that the man largely responsible for
Canada's conversion to a single-payer health care system has admitted
the system's failu

"Back in the 1960s, (Claude) Castonguay chaired a Canadian government
committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province
of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt
government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax
levies.

The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker:
"the father of Quebec medicare." Even this title seems modest;
Castonguay's work triggered a domino effect across the country, until
eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast."

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing
Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in
"crisis."

"We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services
or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But
now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a
greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom
of choice."

As more and more nations throughout the world seek to infuse more
private, market-based solutions into their government-controlled
healthcare systems, for some reason lefties in this country want to make
the same mistake that countries like Canada made decades ago. Let's hope
voters in North Carolina and across the US wake up, or else we may be
forced to confront "rationing services or injecting massive amounts of
new money" into a system that even one of its pioneers admits to being a
failure.