Canadian Health Care 'Imploding'

...taking American liberals' favorite argument with it, courtesy of John Stossel:

But there's more:

The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.

"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."

Ironically, the changes they're proposing are shifting toward more private health care delivery (those eeeeevil insurance companies and doctors!) and patient-centered treatment and payments (those eeeeevil profit incentives!). Sound familiar? They're essentially moving from a government-run health care system toward a private health care system like we already have in the United States!

And we're headed in the opposite direction, if Obamacare passes.

Rush Limbaugh recently proposed a simple and elegant health care system for everyone who wants nationalization like they have in Canada:

Health care for everybody at lower cost, right? No, that's the real objective. We'd like everybody to have access to health care. We certainly want to bring the costs down, do we not? That's what we want to do. I have a plan. I have a plan to give everybody health care and slash costs, and I don't need a thousand pages of rationing. I don't need death panels ... regulating, nor invasion of your privacy.

I can deliver what Obama is promising with one sentence. It's very simple. "You're sick? Here's a train ticket to Canada." If you like socialized medicine, we can send to you Canada to get treated, and he can do it for much less than converting our system to Canada's. All we gotta do is put you on a train or put you on an airplane, whatever the transportation costs. Let the Canadians handle the care. If you like that kind of system or if you want to go to the UK, we'll put you on a plane send you there. But that's going to cost so much less and there's going to be no interruption whatsoever to our personal freedom. The people that do not want to go to Canada, people that don't want to go to the UK -- or maybe if you want to go to Cuba to get treated!

That's the best health care in the world, we're told. So if you want to go to Cuba, we'll send you there. If you want to go to Canada, we'll send you there! All it's going to cost us is whatever the transportation costs and maybe a hotel for a couple nights. But Canada will take care of the health care costs because it's "free" for everybody. Isn't this brilliant, folks?

Not a bad idea. It would have the added benefit of stimulating the travel industry, which Barack Obama has decimated since he took office.

Win-win!

There's my two cents.