"thunder" wrote in message
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On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:36:47 -0400, Bert Robbins wrote:


Why do Canadian's come to the US for health care? Because they can see a
doctor or get an MRI next week rather the 10 months from now.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarti...m?ItemID=10515

"Most of what we hear about the Canadian health care system is negative; in
particular, the long waiting times for medical procedures. But we found
that waiting times affect few patients, only 3.5% of Canadians vs. 0.7% of
people in the U.S."

How is that not significant? If I wrote the headline, it would read: "Five
times as many Canadian patients are affected by long waiting times compared
to American patients".

The fact that the author downplays that important fact, yet hypes another
fact like "9.9% of U.S. respondents couldn't afford medicine vs. 5.1% in
Canada", shows his bias.