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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