A Short Course in Brain Surgery


Filmmaker Stuart Browning shows the callousness of "single-payer", government-run health care systems as practiced in Canada.







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Uploaded: December 5, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Author: StuartBrowning

Length: 00:05:36
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KNWTHEFACTS70 (November 14, 2008 at 10:44 pm)
The point was that the UHC in the UK is rewarding their doctors and driving better patient results than the US. Yet this is your so called gov't "bureaucracy" where results are still better than the US. You are also wrong about medicine in CAN. The Canadian system is Gov't price controlled and is the reason why many Americans purchase their medicine from Canada(ie.cheaper). In fact there have been a few US politicians that have advocated US citizens to buy their medicine from Canada.
KNWTHEFACTS70 (November 14, 2008 at 10:34 pm)
When you can't dispute the facts, you make baseless accusations of the people conducting the study. This is typical dishonest right wing tactic. You said healthcare providers need to be rewarded, here's the UK doing just that and getting results. It's just another way the UHC system is driving results superior to the US private system. In fact the head of the Canadian Medical Association wants to bring this same system of reward to Canada. Makes sense.
KNWTHEFACTS70 (November 14, 2008 at 10:22 pm)
You miss the point. If the US had such "strong libertarian ideals" the gov't would not have bailed out these corps. Which renders your point above FALSE. The reason Canada does not support a private system like the US is because IT DOESN'T WORK. It is not that we are so much more responsible than Amercns but it is that we have the ACCESS to healthcare and utilize the system to better manage our health. Of the US uninsured, 30.4% have an unmet health need due to cost, 7 times higher than CAN.
eilloross (November 14, 2008 at 5:54 am)
Also, you bring up an irrelevant point- the UK has SOCIALIZED medicine, where the government provides the infrastructure and employs the workers... NO ONE of importance in the US (not even the most socialist politicians) are advocating socialized medicine. Canada doesn't even have socialized medicine. The liberals here simply want to decide how much to pay for health care, WITHOUT providing it. Under a socialized system, the tax-payers would have to PROVIDE the health care. Nice try though.

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