21 ways Canadian healthcare better than Obamacare
In the United States, a majority many for different reasons oppose
Obamacare.
Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:41PM GMT
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Ralph Nader, Common Dreams
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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 did it
with index cards!
Below please find 21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than
Obamacare.
Repeal Obamacare and replace it with the much more efficient single-payer,
everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital.
Love, Canada
Number 21:
In Canada, everyone is covered automatically at birth - everybody in, nobody
out.
In the United States, under Obamacare, 31 million Americans will still be
uninsured by 2023 and millions more will remain underinsured.
Number 20:
In Canada, the health system is designed to put people, not profits, first.
In the United States, Obamacare will do little to curb insurance industry
profits and will actually enhance insurance industry profits.
Number 19:
In Canada, coverage is not tied to a job or dependent on your income - rich
and poor are in the same system, the best guaranty of quality.
In the United States, under Obamacare, much still depends on your job or
income. Lose your job or lose your income, and you might lose your existing
health insurance or have to settle for lesser coverage.
Number 18:
In Canada, health care coverage stays with you for your entire life.
In the United States, under Obamacare, for tens of millions of Americans,
health care coverage stays with you for as long as you can afford your
share.
Number 17:
In Canada, you can freely choose your doctors and hospitals and keep them.
There are no lists of in-network vendors and no extra hidden charges for
going out of network.
In the United States, under Obamacare, the in-network list of places where
you can get treated is shrinking - thus restricting freedom of choice - and
if you want to go out of network, you pay for it.
Number 16:
In Canada, the health care system is funded by income, sales and corporate
taxes that, combined, are much lower than what Americans pay in premiums.
In the United States, under Obamacare, for thousands of Americans, its pay
or die - if you cant pay, you die. Thats why many thousands will still die
every year under Obamacare from lack of health insurance to get diagnosed
and treated in time.
Number 15:
In Canada, there are no complex hospital or doctor bills. In fact, usually
you dont even see a bill.
In the United States, under Obamacare, hospital and doctor bills will still
be terribly complex, making it impossible to discover the many costly
overcharges.
Number 14:
In Canada, costs are controlled. Canada pays 10 percent of its GDP for its
health care system, covering everyone.
In the United States, under Obamacare, costs continue to skyrocket. The U.S.
currently pays 18 percent of its GDP and still doesnt cover tens of
millions of people.
Number 13:
In Canada, it is unheard of for anyone to go bankrupt due to health care
costs.
In the United States, under Obamacare, health care driven bankruptcy will
continue to plague Americans.
Number 12:
In Canada, simplicity leads to major savings in administrative costs and
overhead.
In the United States, under Obamacare, complexity will lead to ratcheting up
administrative costs and overhead.
Number 11:
In Canada, when you go to a doctor or hospital the first thing they ask you
is: Whats wrong?
In the United States, the first thing they ask you is: What kind of
insurance do you have?
Number 10:
In Canada, the government negotiates drug prices so they are more
affordable.
In the United States, under Obamacare, Congress made it specifically illegal
for the government to negotiate drug prices for volume purchases, so they
remain unaffordable.
Number 9:
In Canada, the government health care funds are not profitably diverted to
the top one percent.
In the United States, under Obamacare, health care funds will continue to
flow to the top. In 2012, CEOs at six of the largest insurance companies in
the U.S. received a total of $83.3 million in pay, plus benefits.
Number 8:
In Canada, there are no necessary co-pays or deductibles.
In the United States, under Obamacare, the deductibles and co-pays will
continue to be unaffordable for many millions of Americans.
Number 7:
In Canada, the health care system contributes to social solidarity and
national pride.
In the United States, Obamacare is divisive, with rich and poor in different
systems and tens of millions left out or with sorely limited benefits.
Number 6:
In Canada, delays in health care are not due to the cost of insurance.
In the United States, under Obamacare, patients without health insurance or
who are underinsured will continue to delay or forgo care and put their
lives at risk.
Number 5:
In Canada, nobody dies due to lack of health insurance.
In the United States, under Obamacare, many thousands will continue to die
every year due to lack of health insurance.
Number 4:
In Canada, an increasing majority supports their health care system, which
costs half as much, per person, as in the United States. And in Canada,
everyone is covered.
In the United States, a majority - many for different reasons - oppose
Obamacare.
Number 3:
In Canada, the tax payments to fund the health care system are progressive -
the lowest 20 percent pays 6 percent of income into the system while the
highest 20 percent pays 8 percent.
In the United States, under Obamacare, the poor pay a larger share of their
income for health care than the affluent.
Number 2:
In Canada, the administration of the system is simple. You get a health care
card when you are born. And you swipe it when you go to a doctor or
hospital. End of story.
In the United States, Obamacares 2,500 pages plus regulations (the Canadian
Medicare Bill was 13 pages) is so complex that then Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi said before passage we have to pass the bill so that you can
find out what is in it.
Number 1:
In Canada, the majority of citizens love their health care system.
In the United States, the majority of citizens, physicians, and nurses
prefer the Canadian type system - single-payer, free choice of doctor and
hospital, everybody in, nobody out.
AGB/AGB
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
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