Comments on: John Stossel: Insurance Makes Healthcare Far More Expensive

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:23:06 +0000

Canada has a single payer system.

By: GaryVolts

GaryVolts — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:28:26 +0000

Nonody is agruing that the current system as it stands is perfect. Hell, th epoint of this story is to show by way of analogy that we are over using insurance.

The change needs to be away from insurance, not mandating insurance for everyone.

By: pismo10

pismo10 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:49:15 +0000

Canadians have access to a waiting list, not healthcare. That is why they flock to the US for procedures. Gee I wonder why…?

By: pismo10

pismo10 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:47:04 +0000

The Canadian system is far more rationed than the US. The US will become rationed under govt control.

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:03:24 +0000

That’s a myth that only uninformed Americans believe. Many Americans wait longer than Canadians. People in Canada with purely elective procedures may wait a month or two. Anyone seriously ill is looked after immediately. Canadians don’t know anything about waiting lists. Only Americans know about Canadian waiting lists. How do Americans know more about Canadian health carfe than Canadians do anyway? Because hey don’t know what they’re talking about, that’s why.

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:30:33 +0000

No, not true. US insurtance companies ration a thousand timnes more by denial and recission than ANY government would ever think of. If you compare insurance-run health care to Medicare or the Canadian system, it’s in the US insurance-run system that rationing occurs based on the insurance companies bottom line. .

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:58:08 +0000

A handful of Canadians go to the US for treatment and most are people who think their condition is worse than their own physicans say it is. On the other hand, 1.5 MILLION Americans come to Canada for treatment and surgery they can’t afford in the US.

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:47:53 +0000

Many Americans have a wait of decades for surgery. If a 45 year old needs a knee replacement and can’t afford insurance, they have a wait time of 20 years for their surgery until they get Medicare to be able to have the surgery.

By: murphyj87

murphyj87 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:06:19 +0000

If that knee replacement patient were a Canadian they would probably have that knee replacement within 60 days, 90 days at the outside, not 20 years as they would wait in the US.

By: Gyrode

Gyrode — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:42:59 +0000

@pismo10 Don’t bother with murphy…she is very stubborn…the Canadian system is perfect as far as she is concerned…even though her main arguments NEVER hold…she sincerely thinks she can change peoples’ minds through youtube.