True News: 'Canadian Health Policy Failures' - An Interview with Dr Brett Skinner

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviews Dr Brett Skinner about his new book on the failures of Canadian health policy.

To download a free PDF of the book, or order it, please visit http://www.fdrurl.com/skinner

Dr Skinner is the Director of Bio-Pharma, Health and Insurance policy at the Fraser Institute. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario (London) where he has taught courses in both the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Political Science. He earned a BA (Hon.) from the University of Windsor (Ontario) and an MA through joint studies at the University of Windsor and Wayne State University (Michigan).

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• medical
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[RuBbErRoOmChAoS]

Stef,do you ever give misinformation? I bet you say no.

[stefbot]

It's a trap! :) But really, no, I don't have any advertisers, don't take any funding, the show relies entirely on voluntary donations from anonymous people...

[BlueRaven89]

@ "hole 1": the market cannot be predicted because the market is just an abstract word that represents millions of people acting in their own interests through exchange. Your right we can't predict what millions of consumers and producers will do every second simply because it is impossible to collect that much information. This is the same calculation problem that pesters and dooms every socialist government to failure or mediocrity.

[Paul1953H]

Don't you get it Saggy??? Individuals in the free market can choose NOT to sell insurance to high-risk people because it would NOT be a mutually beneficial business relationship.

Why the hell should insurance companies (funded by the taxpayer, don't forget) be forced to abandon its business model to cover more people?? This is going to put a major barrier up against any new insurance companies trying to start up and will lead to monopoly.

[happinesson]

This news came as a complete shock! Take a review on the policies cause health is wealth.

[genghisdon1]

shocking that the rich have a greater share of the tax burden!? LOL...you lost me at that point.

This dude is pedalling a load of BS.

[AnnRKey]

The fact is that health is very much out of the hands of individuals. Most are born healthy, some are born very unhealthy. Universal health care should be desired among any nation calling themselves civilized. The burden should be spread across all citizens. Why would a for profit insurance company take on the risk of those born unhealthy? The goal in a free market system is to maximize profit, is it not?

[mike6459]

a dog in canada can get a hip replacement surgery in one week while it takes a Canadian citizen a week just to get to see his family doctor...takes another month to see a specialist,,, a week to get the xray back and another 4 months to get the surgery...open heart surgery...you'll probably die before your scheduled surgery. Canadian health care is great for surgeries that take under an hour to do...cataracts and hernia...in and out of the hospital in 4 hours

[Xtro2005]

@stefbot ever wonder if the bias they assume of your sources by nature of them being capitalist is nothing more than projection?

[Xtro2005]

@stefbot survey says yes. 9 our 10 shills agree.

[Darusdei]

@Rev01t surprise surprise, half truths and white lies...