Canada Health Care

Survey Finds Significant Lack of Confidence In Healthcare System

Posted 12.27.2011 | Fifty

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The outlook of growing older in the current economic climate continues to look bleak, as the struggles of boomers' elderly parents only provide a gloo...

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Vermont Governor Sets Out to Lead U.S. to True Universal Coverage

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Shumlin is hoping to implement a publicly financed system that guarantees universal access to medical care and controls costs better than private insurers.

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U.S. Media, Public Can Learn a Lot From Neglected Neighbor Canada

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Canada's far more civilized approach to the role of government in its citizens' lives and their basic civility is too important to overlook.

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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- a...

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Canadian Health Care's Dirty Secret

GlobalPost | Sandro Contenta | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Near the end of the Winter Olympics, the premier of the small province of Newfoundland made a much-anticipated appearance at the Vancouver Games. Dan...

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American Doctors Will Love Health Reform

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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You cannot control costs as long as you have a private-sector dominated medical system based on profitability, conflicts of interest and medical-lobby-protectionist and featherbedding legislation.

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Thousands From Canada And Europe Praise Their National Health Care On Global Message Board

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Yesterday, global online advocacy network Avaaz.org attempted to inject a dose of reality into the heated debate over health care reform by launching ...

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Bye Bye Public Option

Robert Davey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Republicans are still telling lies, only now the lies and misrepresentation are about health reform. And their lies are being believed once again.

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Government Health Insurance? What About Public Auto Insurance

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Ideology and propaganda will squash any consideration of a well-executed public insurance option in America, no matter how compelling the case may be.

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An Ordinary Man

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

My primary connection to health care is my being a consumer of it, and nothing more. I will apologize at least once for having the temerity to suggest...

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"Deathers" Expose Canada's Health Care Secret

Toby Barlow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

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When Obama explains how the U.S.'s health care can be fixed, he points to Canada. Sounds good until you consider that after Canada instituted its health care program, everyone in the country died.

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Defending Canada's Health Care: Truths and Lies

Jack Layton | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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With health care reform in the U.S. closer to success than at any time in my life, our hopes are with you. Don't let right-wing lies about Canada help derail health care reform in America.

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Real Canadians Stick Up For Universal Health Care

The Huffington Post | Gideon Pine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Amid all the hyperbole in the ongoing debate about the future of American health care, some of the most extreme public disagreements are over the expe...

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In a Sense, Abroad Part Quatre: You Bet They Canada!

Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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How long before Americans realize that the pay-or-die option so generously offered by the medical and drug industry really does not represent the best care in the world?

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