{"id":31319,"date":"2017-08-06T19:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31319"},"modified":"2017-08-06T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:23:40","slug":"avoiding-a-healthcare-system-that-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31319","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding A Healthcare System That Doesn’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been understood by those of us who look behind the curtain that ObamaCare<\/a> was simply a step toward a single-payer healthcare system<\/a>. ObamaCare was designed to collapse under its own weight (as it is doing) so that the Democratic Party<\/a> and President Hillary Clinton<\/a> could be heroes by replacing it with a wonderful single-payer system. Some Democrats (despite losing the White House<\/a> and being a minority in both the House and the Senate) are suggesting that it is now time to move to a single-payer system. So how has single-payer worked in other places it has been instituted?<\/p>\n

Canada<\/a> has single-payer healthcare, and The Daily Caller<\/a> recently posted an article about Canadian healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some highlights from the article:<\/p>\n

\u201cFree\u201d Canadian healthcare is not free, acc<\/a>ording to a report released Tuesday\u00a0<\/a>by noted conservative Canadian think-tank, The Fraser Institute<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report illuminates that a \u201ctypical Canadian family of four will pay $12,057 for health care<\/a> in 2017\u2014an increase of nearly 70 percent over the last 20 years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada operates under a medicare system that is understood as single-payer. Not only does the federal government use money from its general revenue to finance this taxpayer-funded health care system, individual provinces also contribute by raising money through special levies that are deducted when Canadians pay their income tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The think-tank compiled information from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information to base its claim that the \u201caverage Canadian family with two parents and two children with a household income of $127,814 will pay $12,057 for public health-care insurance this year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barua told The Daily Caller that Canada is in a health care crisis. \u201cServices are being rationed. In our last report on wait times in Canda, we discovered that the average wait time from referral to treatment was 20 weeks. That was the longest wait time in the history of our survey,\u201d he said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The senior economist emphasized that the study was designed to show Canadian families what kind of value they\u2019re getting for their health care dollar. They will have reason to look at things differently if they read this study,\u201d Barua (Bacchus Barua, senior economist with the Fraser Institute\u2019s Centre for Health Policy Studies) told The Daily Caller.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The free market works every time it is tried. Socialism, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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