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Rebecca Phillips is Student Freedom Project Coordinator at the Freedom Foundation in Olympia, Washington. She is a recent graduate of Berry College, Georgia, and a guest contributor for Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research center..
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Canada would make a better bogeyman if the health care system there wasn’t so successful and popular (I’d tell you 70 percent approval rating, but I’m sure you’d prefer to do the research yourself). But the fact is that American law took the mistakes Canada did make into account to craft a different policy. This law is open to plenty of criticism. The points you offer don’t stand up for three main reasons, however:
1. Canadians like their health care system better than Americans like theirs.
2. PPACA isn’t remotely close to the Canadian system and, therefore, unlikely to produce similar results.
3. The argument that PPACA can transform itself into a single-payer system (making it close enough to the Canadian system for this column to make sense) ignores the political reality that was made so clear in the narrow passage of PPACA. Graham might believe in conspiracies, but you need to have something more to base your article on.
I wish the health care market worked like other markets, but it doesn’t. Being surrounded by sick people makes me use more health care and costs me more money. That makes me less free. Given that rationing and waits for health care would also mean less freedom, the question is how we can create a system that keeps individuals free from infected, uninsured people and also free from a burdensome system. I’d love to see a column on that. I do wonder how things are done outside North America and if they’re any better.
@Daniel: I met one of those happy Canadians a couple of years ago. She was working as a hospice care nurse at Providence/St. Vincent, and we met one afternoon as she was sitting watch over a friend of mine who was receiving free cancer care. My friend was asleep, and the Canadian struck up a conversation with me. An obvious topic was health care, and I asked her what she thought about the Canadian system. She said she loved it, because she could always see a doctor. Then she paused, and said, “I did have one problem, though.” Her problem? She was sterilized against her will by the attending doctor who delivered her last child by c-section. He had asked her before hand if she wanted to have the procedure, suggesting that she had given birth to enough kids. She declined. He did it anyway. Nice system, eh? No recourse for her: he simply recorded that she had asked for the procedure. Oh, yeah, bring on that government control, with the attendant sovereign immunity. NOT!
You’re right. We have a shameful history of forced sterilization in Canada; there’s no getting around that. I don’t know when this happened to your nurse, but the practice extended until the late 60s or early 70s. Whether it’s part of this or from a rogue doctor after the policy ended, it’s still terrible.
I’d resist jumping to conclusions about our health system, which has developed into what we have today over the following decades. If even the woman who had this horrible thing happen to her was able to separate that from the overall system, you surely can do the same.
There’s plenty I don’t like about our system; complaining about it is a national pastime. But I’d never trade if for what you have in the States. I don’t know anyone who would.
This makes a lot of sense. I mean it makes sense if you are rich or your parents are rich. Who waits 18 minutes for an MRI? Not the college students who use the campus health clinic now and who will have no health care in a few years. But let me understand: college students (who are too occupied with partying to understand their future, thanks for condescending) should worry about businesses that don’t currently cover health care. Instead of the current worry: that they’ll get a job from someone who doesn’t cover health insurance, which they’ll have to buy individually at a huge premium.
Pardon me for saying that I’m not so sympathetic to the companies who are skimping on benefits to hire more people, thereby passing the cost along to their employees and society. And guess what? Those are the jobs we’re getting right out of college, not the ones that have good benefits. We’re paying for our own insurance (a hugely inefficient scheme), paying out of pocket (and thus paying more because no insurance company has negotiated discounts for us) or just using emergency services and passing the cost along to you.
Let’s reward the real job creators, the ones who have stuck it out and provided health care for their employees even as costs skyrocket. They’d finally get a break when they don’t have to eat the costs of uninsured people through increased premiums and increased taxes for public services.
@Ed: sounds like you should quit whining, start a business, and show the world how to turn a profit while gold-plating the employee benefits package. Get back to us on that, when you’re all done, would you?
Tom:
You make my point beautifully: Benefits are getting more and more expensive because we don’t have the system costs under control. That is, we pay more when some people aren’t covered. Maybe you’re not bothered by seeing your health insurance getting more expensive or covering less, but I would imagine most people are. As you can see from my original comments, I’m sympathetic to businesses struggling to treat their employees well. I’d love to hear what you think on my points and this issue in general.
I remember hearing a Canadian radio program within the last 5 years in which the doctors’ wives at a hospital in Nova Scotia raised $100K to buy a bone scan machine. The Nova Scotia government told them they could not purchase it, because the government would not pay for medicine used to treat osteoporosis–so there was no point in diagnosing it. Canadians don’t hear a constant barrage of how terrible their medicine is in the same way Americans do. I expect that affects their view of it. I also surmise that far fewer than the 30% of Canadians who express dissatisfaction with their system have ever experienced the need for serious medicine (timely, expensive, critical). There are trade-offs with any system, and the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the fence.
By the way, my husband had to see a doctor in Germany about 15 years ago on an emergency basis. The doctor spent about 20 minutes with him and provided a prescription, then apologized for having to charge him as he wasn’t on the German insurance system. The charge was the equivalent of $8. I don’t think, even 15 years ago, you would find many doctors willing to work in the US for $24/hour.