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[somedaybitch]

The New York Times reports that the Canadian system is imploding. A recent Candian Supreme Court decision allowed private health care (oh, the shame, the horror) and as a result, Canadians tired of waiting for radiation therapy, eye surgery and hip replacements have turned toward private alternatives springing up under the new legal environment.

i'm shocked. oh, wait.

article here.

the other relevant bit, and something i didn't actually know.

Canada remains the only industrialized country that outlaws privately financed purchases of core medical services.

i get why a society would want a nationalized health care system but i do not in any way understand then making private health care illegal. i would have thought that having both systems would help to keep prices, trends and "services" competitive, which keeps costs down. something that would both make sense, and save the government funded program money, which is generally considered a good thing. oh, sorry. that's capitalism. my mistake.