A Short Course in Brain Surgery highlights the plight of an Ontario man with a cancerous brain tumor who crossed the border to the U.S. to get the medical care that is rationed in his home country.
Written, Directed, Produced, Edited and Narrated By: Stuart Browning. (From FreeMarketCure.com.)
The Canadians do not have the single payer universal health care system as proposed for implemetation here in the U.S. They have a nationalized, socialized if you will, health care system. The Canadian government owns the the infrastructure, the physical plants of clinics, hospitals, major capital investment diagnostic equipment such as MRI, CT, PET, & Rad Onc systems, etc. - like the flawed VA Health System. That is a costly trap that is the greatest flaw in their system. They are under-budgeted for their costs and capitalizations, with their mutiple, disparate functions leading to even less efficiency.
The single payer universal health care system proposed for implementation in the U.S. is a public finance system for a private health care system. The goal is to redirect accountability to consumers-voters, as well as decrease transparency and reduce overhead costs due to organizational redundancy, marketing and sales aparatus, as well as private sector executive management compensation costs.
It is NOT a nationalized or socialized comprehensive health care system from the physical plant to the medical staff. Suggesting this is a distortion. It might be ignorance the first time, a mistake the second, after that it becomes obviously intentional. Further attributions of intent, agenda, goals, and objectives for repeatedly posting biased, inaccurate, rhetorical persuasion pieces become disturbing and problematic. Please don't waste bandwidth on defending how true the story is. I'll even stipulate the facts of this poor canadian's health care plight.
The problem is that these statements distort and misrepresent the positions, policies and proposals that you oppose. The inaccurate assertions of the goals and proposals of the Single Payer movement might have the desired effect of scaring people away for the notion and giving them a false sense of what the Single Payer proposal is about. That begs the question, why is it so important for you and others to maintain the current non-system, or at least hamstring meaningful reform, that resorting to misleading distortions, misrepresentations and lies can be rationalized and justified somehow?
Why not build a case on the actual weaknesses of the proposals, and the strengths of yours, instead of making stuff up? That would be honorable and might just lead to the best, fact-based democratic/representational decision-making process for health care reform implementation and policy development for the greatest number of Americans, maybe even for the greatest good for America.
Lying, and distorting and building straw men and confusing readers with compelling but misleading presentations of anecdotes is cynical and presumably more about power and economic opportunism than working for the greater good.
Hmmm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
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