Reply #33: The Canadian courts don't agree with you

[zipplewrath]

Canada's system is so "good" that their own supreme court said it bordered on the unconstitutional:

"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," wrote Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin for the 4-3 Court last week. "

Universal health care is "expensive" because strangely enough people who are sick expect to get treated. Right now we have an economic rationing of healthcare. If you can afford it you get it. Once you have to pay for every single person who is sick, the cost will rise because rationing won't exist based upon who can pay. At that point you either pay the whole bill, or ration it based upon some other criteria. But if we cut out much of the profit, we can save a bit. The health insurance companies will probably cease to exist, but they'll find other ways to insure folks. The real problem will be in defining what a "health care cost" is because it is hard to separate the causes of health problems from the treatments. Homelessness causes health problems. Do you get a perscription for an apartment?