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Exactly, Sprite. As a Canadian listening to conservative talk radio hosts foam at the mouth these days about Obama’s healthcare plan, it’s interesting to note that 99.9% of all right wing and extreme right wing Canadian will never give up their national healthcare. You’d have to pry it from their cold dead hands.
Perhaps doctors should just be given a sort of “divine right” to be incompetent and then we’d have plenty of them. Hell, I’d become one myself. It’s easy money and you don’t even have to be any good. If you took your car to a mechanic and he could not fix it but still wanted you to pay $500.00 dollars, you’d be shocked. But that is essentially what doctors do. I have been to several doctors with a skin condition, none know what it is or how to fix it, they all scratch their head and say they don’t know anything but then bill me for $500.00. I spent a long time in Canada with national healthcare, and it worked well, the doctors were the best paid people in our town, and I never had to wait to see one or go to a hospital. I don’t understand why the boogeyman of national healthcare creates such a kneejerk reaction in some people.
This article in today’s New York Times by Paul Krugman sort of supports the thesis in Michael Moore’s movie, “Sicko.”
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant-cure-healthcare/
