Healthcare in Canada: Did you hear that Thud?
The regional experiment in socialized medicine, a little country we like to call Canada, has been held up as an example for decades here in the States. But... there's a teensy,
weensy little problem:
| In a recent poll, more than 80 percent of Canadians rate the system “in crisis.” People wait for practically any diagnostic test, surgical procedure, or specialist consult... With just one family doctor to service [Norwood, Ont.], the physician takes only 50 new patients a year. As a result, the town holds an annual lottery with the 50 winners getting an appointment with him... |
The regional experiment in socialized medicine, a little country we like to call Canada, has been held up as an example for decades here in the States. But... there's a teensy, weensy little problem:
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