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Originally Posted by spence
Not going to spend the time to Google, but I'll take the Wiki as good enough...
Canadians strongly support the health system's public rather than for-profit private basis, and a 2009 poll by Nanos Research found 86.2% of Canadians surveyed supported or strongly supported "public solutions to make our public health care stronger."[6][7]
A 2009 Harris/Decima poll found 82% of Canadians preferred their healthcare system to the one in the United States.
-spence
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more from your WIKI
Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly-funded health care system,
which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities.
I'm shocked that 82% prefer a system that is "mostly free" and when asked if they prefer it to one that they never use (American) and would have to pay for....... they chose the "mostly free" one...go figure?????
also wonder how enthusisatically they'd support their healthcare system if they were denied access to American made pharmaceuticals, American medical technology and advancements, or denied travel for American medical care when they cannot get it on their own side of the border and had to rely soley on what Canadians produced through their own "mostly free" price controlled system... ????
might still be 82% I suppose as it would still be the only thing that most of them have known since birth....and the alternative, particularly if you have to pay something...can be scary
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/...64u3xo20100531
"We can't continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.
"At some stage we're going to hit a breaking point."
"It's an area that Canadians don't want to see touched," said TD's Burleton. "Essentially it boils down the wishes of the population. But I think, from an economist's standpoint, we point to the fact that sometimes Canadians in the short term may not realize the cost."
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