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Friday, October 15, 2004Medicare isn’t a moral enterprise: what’s moral about removing a citizen’s responsibility for his and his dependents’ health care and entrusting it to the state? If free citizens of advanced, wealthy economies are not prepared to make provision for their own health care, what other basic responsibilities are they likely to forego? And he has plenty of examples of what happens when you show up in a Canadian ER without your national health card. And then, there's the sick man who had to lie on a bench outside a crowded ER while he waited his turn. I have to admit, I have no first hand experience with Canadian healthcare, but Mark Steyn's stories and the bench sitter's tale echo the healthcare system that was portrayed in the Canadian film Jesus of Montreal. When the main character is knocked in the head his friends take him to the hospital, but he has to wait for so long - on a stretcher in a hallway - that he leaves without ever being seen, only to die later from a brain hemorrhage. I know, it's just a movie, but there's usually a kernel of truth hidden in drama. There has to be, to make it believable. posted by Sydney on 10/15/2004 11:12:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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