it may save your life, or someone you love.
Canadians come to the United States to seek treatment
By Matthew Vadum, Thursday, February 26, 2009, [for the Canadian Free Press]
President Obama is promising universal health care for Americans.
God help us. [A Canadian is worried about America's health care?]
[Canadian] Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute [in San Francisco], explained on the “Mark Levin Show” last night why government health care has been a disaster everywhere it’s been tried and would be a catastrophe for the United States.
Americans hate standing in line and they won’t tolerate the health care rationing the government is planning to impose on Americans.
“They don’t like standing at line at the post office, as you know, Mark, they don’t like standing in line at the DMV. When the government takes over their health care, they’ll be standing in line waiting for care,” said Pipes, a native Canadian who knows whereof she speaks.
Canadians, Pipes pointed out, come to the United States to seek treatment instead of dying on Canadian government waiting lists.
The book “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide” challenges the conventional belief that only government can fix our health care system. In fact, says Sally Pipes, “government overreach has put the system in a state of crisis.”
In her conclusion, Ms. Pipes offers some ways to fix the country's biggest health care problems. “If we want to bring costs down and extend coverage to more Americans, we have to open the health care marketplace to competition -- by abolishing costly government regulations and reforming the tax code to make insurance more affordable.”
“We can solve the health care problems that plague the United States,” concluded Ms. Pipes. “But we won't solve them if we continue to believe the many myths that plague the health care debate.”List of Chapters
Foreword by Steve Forbes
Myth One: Government Health Care Is More Efficient
Myth Two: We're Spending Too Much on Health Care
Myth Three: Forty-Six Million Americans Can't Get Health Care
Myth Four: High Drug Prices Drive Up Health Care Costs
Myth Five: Importing Drugs Would Reduce Health Care Costs
Myth Six: Universal Coverage Can Be Achieved by Forcing Everyone to Buy Insurance
Myth Seven: Government Prevention Programs Reduce Health Care Costs
Myth Eight: We Need More Government to Insure Poor Americans
Myth Nine: Health Information Technology Is a Silver Bullet for Reducing Costs
Myth Ten: Government-Run Health Care Systems in Other Countries are Better and Cheaper than America's
Solutions: Markets, Consumer Choice, and Innovation
When Canadians, who already benefit from universal health care, start worrying about America launching the same program, I sit up straight and pay attention. Coming to America to receive health care so they don't die on a government waiting list to get treatment disturbs me! Canadian government surveys do not reflect this analysis.
I don't believe our government has the ability or aspiration to solve this problem. Soon, the world will no longer look to America to heal the sick.
On a positive note, our government will afford all felons, terrorists, illegal aliens and foreign and domestic enemies more liberties and less punishment allowed current Americans...as long as you can fill out a voters registration application.
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