Canada – Healthcare-NOW

Trump: Single Payer for Everyone Else

Healthcare-NOW’s Benjamin Day takes on Trump’s claim that single payer couldn’t work in the U.S.

21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare

By Ralph Nader – Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal. In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They…

Canadians pay taxes for universal healthcare, and now they’re richer than us

By Dr. Philip Caper for BangorDailyNews.com – I’ve been watching with some dismay the wrestling match going on between the governor and the Maine Legislature over the opportunity offered by the federal Affordable Care Act to expand our MaineCare program. Proponents of expansion of MaineCare make their argument on both moral and economic grounds. Such…

Canadian Example Offers a Possible Path to Curbing US Medicare Costs

By Mike Mitka for News@JAMA – While Medicare costs continue to rise and Democrats and Republicans promote various plans to curb such spending, 2 researchers suggest politicians look north to Canada for solutions. In a Research Letter published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the authors compare Medicare spending from 1980 through 2009 in…

How I Lost My Fear of Universal Health Care

By Melissa for Permission to Live – When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This meant we couldn’t choose our own health coverage, or even opt out if…

Canada’s Health Care: An Alternate Universe

By Elizabeth Rosenthal – I recently returned from a visit of several days to an alternate universe: Canadian health care. As a physician who has practiced in the United States for 44 years, I have experienced many aspects of our health care system, including its terrible inequities. Although some Americans get very good health care,…

In Canada: Public health care as sustainable as we want it to be

Claim that medicare is too costly to maintain is based on economic and political myths By Robert G. Evans, University Killam Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia, for thestar.com – “There are stark and unpalatable choices that we face with respect to health care, but there is no magic…

No Country for Sick Men

To judge the content of a nation’s character, look no further than its health-care system. By T. R. Reid for Newsweek – “Us Canadians, we’re kind of understated by nature,” Marcus Davies told me in his soft-spoken way. “We don’t go around chanting ‘We’re No. 1!’ But you know, there are two areas where we…

New poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care

Group says advocates of private system are out of touch with most Canadians In a last-ditch effort to convince Canadians that their public health care system should be privatized, Canadian Medical Association (CMA) President Robert Ouellet has promised to “pull out all the stops” during the association’s annual meeting next week. Trouble is, Ouellet’s mission…