Comments on: On Canada’s Health-Care System

By: mr. brady class

mr. brady class — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:15:00 +0000

well i dnt think ur a very nice person

p.s degrassi ROCKS!!!!!!

By: Toro

Toro — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Yet no political party in Canada proposes fundamentally changing Medicare.

Canadians may not be entirely happy with their system, but they certainly do not want an American for-profit system.

By: liz

liz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:21:00 +0000

My family was in Canada visiting several years ago. At a castle, I was chatting with the woman in front of us in line. She was an American who’d met a Canadian, fallen in love and stayed. The one thing I remember is her comment about how insane taxes are in Canada — and that health care there was problematic. It wasn’t a long conversation — but she clearly favored an American approach to both taxes and health care!

And I keep thinking that in this whole discussion, about how best to meet patients’ needs, that one of the things missing completely is the benefits of personal medicine, in which patients actually receive personal attention. Dr. Norman Makous (doctor for some 50-60 years) has written a book talking about just that, called “Time to Care.” It’s not about the current legislation, but about the changes that have happened in the care of patients and how that should be fixed. And the legislation fails to address the key issues in the book — HOW we provide medical services! His point of view is that having an independent primary care physician at the heart of the person’s medical care is a proven, effective and ethical method of monitoring care — and it reduces unnecessary and expensive tests that so drive up costs. Very thought-provoking — and the kind of medicine I want.

By: Moggio (from France)

Moggio (from France) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:00 +0000

With regard to the first paragraph of your snippet, maybe the same is true for the French and their health-care system…

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:29:00 +0000

As Munger and Roberts might say, if you hold prices constant you just shift the allocator to other margins (or something like that). In this case, political connections. Suddenly, even bit players that have any say in the queue find their stock value has increased and others become attracted to such positions for that very reason.