Canadian Healthcare

Why Poor Women With Breast Cancer Should Move to Canada

D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


D. Brad Wright

While Canadians might face slightly longer waits for breast cancer treatment than wealthy Americans, the least well-off Americans receive no treatment at all.

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

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 09.21.2009 | World


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

Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Amy Goodman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Amy Goodman

Kiefer Sutherland, who plays a rogue intelligence agent in 24, is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, who is credited with creating the modern Canadian universal health-care system.

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

Steven Weber | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Steven Weber

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?

The "Party of Business" Gets the Business of Health Care Wrong

Diane Francis | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

The wisdom of universal health care is proven and accepted all over the world except in the minds of partisan ignoramuses defending the indefensible.

Canadian Media, Pols Fed Up With GOP's Lies About Its Health-Care System

Bill Mann | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


Bill Mann

Some Canadian politicians, Canada's press, and my Canadian friends are not amused by the GOP's predictable attacks, distortions, and outright lies about Canada's popular, government-run health system.

If You Don't Want the Public Option, Get the Hell Out of the Way

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Bob Cesca

If certain wingnuts and Republicans don't want affordable, guaranteed health insurance, then they don't have to sign up. They're welcome to continue to defiantly roll the dice with their private plans.

While Lobbyists Lament Rationing, Some Patients Want It

Francine Hardaway | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Francine Hardaway

The rant about rationing is designed to make consumers feel that no one will be able to get in to see a doctor under a public plan and make efforts at real health care reform fail.

Americans Who've Used Canada's Health-Care System Respond to Current Big-Lie Media Campaign

Bill Mann | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media


Bill Mann

My wife and I used Canada's health care system for years, and we've been incensed by the lies we've heard back here in the U.S. about how it's supposedly broken.

Canadians Talk to Americans About Health Care

The Real News | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


The Real News

An advertisement outlining Canadian dissatisfaction with government run health care is met with disagreement from Canadians.

Single-Payer Health Care Advocates Deserve a Place at the Table

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Sarah van Gelder

The Obama plan can only be a centrist compromise once it allows single-payer advocates to come to the table.

Health Care Reform by Medicare Expansion

Michael D. Intriligator | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics


Michael D. Intriligator

Medicare Expansion would establish a system of national health care in the United States, which would both control costs and provide quality basic health care to all Americans.

Internet Drug Scam Busted

AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago


CHICAGO (AP) - One of the largest spam operations in the world, a vast network involving countries from New Zealand to China and the United States, ha...