Don't Copy Europe's Mistakes: Less Government Is the Right Way to Fix Healthcare

Waiting lists for elective surgery are a thing of the past. Our previous provincial government lost an election because of them. We have an inexpensive state run drug insurance and and when the doctor orders an MRI or any other test on equal expensive equipment we have reasonable access to it. If it's urgent then we get the service without delay.

We wouldn't have to worry about preexisting conditions if we actually had a real insurance market as opposed to insurance companies paying for day-to-day care. Our health care costs are artificially inflated, please understand this. It is the most contorted market, besides the financial system, in the country! You guys do have high costs though, that is reflected on how many people are on the waiting list for a surgery, your high generic drug prices, and less medical equipment than the US.

Yes, and all Canadians do not have to worry about any "preexisting" or any serious "chronic" condition. Neither the coverage nor the premiums change. We don't worry about loosing our savings or our house to pay for healthcare costs. If anyone goes bankrupt and on welfare is not because of healthcare costs and therefore will not be a bigger burden on the state.

Excuse me, I meant "having."

Are most Canadians have heart surgery, chemotherapy, and who knows what other kind of surgery everyday?

The only chaos we face is that health care in the U.S. is artificially inflated to dangerous levels. I would recommend reading the Objective Standard article linked on my Youtube page for starters.

The Dutch have a more market-oriented system in the first place, if this video is pre-2006 than it makes a lot of sense.

as an american, i think is certainly presumptuous of us to judge another nation's HC system. we just don't realize that, for all of the british, canadian and german complaints about their system, they would rather die than be subjected to the chaos of the american system.

Well said, and I'm certain we will never revoke it. I'm Canadian and if Sarah Palin ran for prime minister on a platform to dismantle our healthcare in favour of a private insurance, "free market" system only, as you have in the US, she would not even get to first base. It would be political suicide.
There have been many scare-mongering, half truths that have been said about our system, and unsuspecting Americans believed them. It's not perfect but we are correcting things to make it better.

fucking stupid cunt, she does not deserve Dutch citizenship. The dutch healthcare system is amongst the best in the world. I can't help that this right-wing nutcase, a failed politician of the Libertas party in europe, isn't getting her voice heard. Now she is using cheap propaganda for attention. There are many examples in europe where healthcare is a succes, and some where it is not. Also, the size of government has NO correlation to succes in countries.