AARP blogger defends Canadian health care

[eridani]

Nothing in the article is surprising--just the source.

http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-03-2012/myths-canada-health-care.html?cmp=NLC-WBLTR-NMPTEST-051112-F1-1&USEG_ID=

Myth #1: Canadians are flocking to the United States to get medical care.

How many times have you heard that Canadians, frustrated by long wait times and rationing where they live, come to the United States for medical care?

I don’t deny that some well-off people might come to the United States for medical care. If I needed a heart or lung transplant, there’s no place I’d rather have it done. But for the vast, vast majority of people, that’s not happening.

The most comprehensive study I’ve seen on this topic — it employed three different methodologies, all with solid rationales behind them — was published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs.

[laundry_queen]

1. K&R nt

[Vinca]

2. The blogger should have mention that when Canadians come to the U.S. for care,

it's usually paid for by the Canadian healthcare system.

[eridani]

3. Makes sense for a country with 1/10 the population of the US

--to take advantage of the oversupply here. When I was working in a comparatively small analytical chem lab, our thermal analyzer crapped out. We looked at the replacement price, and it didn't justify purchase considering the number of service requests that we got. So we just farmed work like that out to a larger lab from that point onward. Odd that when governments do that kind of thing it is supposed to be an example of incompetence.