Libsmasher
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From the current issue of NR:
Universal health care, with a government in charge, is always a false claim, never a reality.
The left wing of the Democratic party still holds up Canada’s “single payer” — that is, entirely government-financed — health-care system as a model. The latest innovation of that system: Overextended doctors are deciding which patients will get treated by drawing names out of a hat. They are rationing health care, in other words, by lottery. Dr. Ken Runciman of Ontario told Canada’s National Post that he had to cut his workload and couldn’t find a better method. “It was just my way of trying to minimize the bias . . . rather than going through the list and saying ‘I don’t like you, and I don’t like you.’” Dr. Runciman has cut 100 patients from his practice, while another doctor in Newfoundland has cut 500 patients. All in all, too few Canadian doctors means that approximately 5 million Canadians are now without family care. What was that about “universal coverage”?
Universal health care, with a government in charge, is always a false claim, never a reality.