A Usenet persona calling itself Frederick Burroughs wrote:

Scott Weiser wrote:


He goes on to say, "The Canadian medical system amounts to moronic policy
and has become a liability to health."

Right on Vincent! Yet more proof that socialized medicine is a very bad
thing.


There are liabilities in every system of health care. One liability
for a socialized health care system in a country with a relatively
healthy population (Canada) is it becomes a target for the private
insurance industry. I imagine a big concern for Canadians (and a
responsibility of the Canadian government) is to make sure private
insurance companies don't take unfair advantage and make unearned
profits in a system designed to be publicly funded.

Nope. It was explicitly designed to be a government monopoly for reasons of
socialistic egalitarianism and nothing more, by the admission of those who
created the system.


It becomes a legislative and management nightmare to make sure the
health care burden is shared equivalently between the public and
private sectors. There is tremendous incentive for private insurers to
descend on a system where the public sector bears the bulk of the
burden, and the customer base will be among the most healthy and
wealthy in the population.

The free market is always the most efficient way for such things to be
"regulated."

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