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[30 Sep 2009 | 61 Comments | 3,323 views]
US healthcare vs. Canadian single payer: Doctors Give Their View – Cortlandt Forum

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.

Canadian health, Featured, lies, lobbies & fear »

[30 Sep 2009 | 53 Comments | 1,380 views]
Was That Canadian Health Care Story Fair?

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 …

letters »

[30 Sep 2009 | 38 Comments | 1,561 views]
Letter: Quit dumping on Canadian health care

Detroit Free Press, Sept 28th

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

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[23 Sep 2009 | 181 Comments | 12,044 views]
Letter: Canadian health care is good model for U.S.

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 …

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[22 Sep 2009 | One Comment | 481 views]
Letter: Don’t believe false portrayal of Canadian health

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

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[22 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 307 views]
Letter: Canada’s health care system works

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

Canadian health, Headline, the news »

[22 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 319 views]
Bloomberg: Canadian Health Care, Even With Queues, Bests U.S.

This Bloomberg article sets the record straight on U.S. VS Canadian health care. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, Canadian public healthcare is quite good by most indicators and better than the U.S. by pretty much all indicators.

Canadian health, Featured, the news »

[20 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 611 views]
Even Canada’s right-wingers back socialized medicine!

Former Prime Minister defends Canadian universal healthcare

Canadian health, Featured »

[16 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 468 views]
Canadian Health MYTHBUSTERS

Mythbusters, from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), is an excellent reality check on the fabrications making rounds regarding the Canadian health insurance system. The CH is a nonprofit public policy research organization in Canada.

Canadian health, video »

[15 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 429 views]
You Tube videos on Canadian health care

There are a lot of useful videos on You Tube debunking myths of Canadian healthcare and explaining it’s value. Here are a few…