“Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government-administered health insurance plan like Medicare that would compete with private health insurance plans?”

65% percent of respondents said yes.

An article from some doctors who have worked on both sides of the border. They have no difficulty discussing problems with Canadian healthcare, such as some procedures that are less readily available than in the U.S. and some of the delays in some specialized services.

Here is video of Shepard Smith with Fox News correspondent Dan Springer in Vancouver, B.C. who is ‘reporting’ on the overwhelming waits in Canada for medical care and the terrible suffering we are all going through here.
He says Canadian single-payer “works really well if you don’t get too sick.” In fact, it’s the opposite – it works really well if you do get too sick, because you jump to the front of the queue for care… And yes, there is a queue -if it is less serious, you …

Detroit Free Press, Sept 28th

…another letter from a fed-up Canadian tired of the lies put forth about Canadian healthcare.

Letter to the Editor in the Seacoast On-line, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
On a recent trip to Canada, I spent some time reading The Globe and Mail. In an article on Page A17 of the Sept. 14 issue, economist Eugene Lang and health policy adviser Philip DeMont compare the Canadian (medicare) and U.S. health care systems.
They observe that “the hysterical tone of the anti-medicare rhetoric among Republicans would make one think Canada is North Korea.” Lang and DeMont go on to discuss the “inconvenient truth” that “Canada’s approach to providing citizens with …

Rallies against the big insurers are welcome, but why is single-payer off the agenda?
[Photo: Service Employees International Union]

Surprising? Unscientific online poll says Helenians wants single-payer

A letter to the editor in the Forum of Fargo-Moorehead by an American from North Dakota living in Regina, Saskatchewan. The author is bothered by the “severe misrepresentation that is occurring about the Canada Health Act and ways in which a universal public health care program is being portrayed in the American media

Letter to Editor from an American in Helena, Montana about the quality health care his 76-year-old sister in Canada receives.

Activists from Single payer Action and Physicians for a National Health Program have set up a memorial on the National Mall for the more than 44,000 Americans who die every year from lack of health insurance. More than 3,000 American flags are planted on the mall at Constitution Avenue and 15th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.