theadvocates.org - 3/9/2009
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The Canadian public health system is often put forward as an ideal for Americans to emulate. It provides all Canadians with free basic health care: free doctors' visits, free hospital ward care, free surgery, free drugs and medicine while in the hospital -- plus some free dental care for ...
mediamatters.org - 3/6/2009
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A January 3, 1935, New York Times article
(purchase required), "Doctors in Debate on Social Medicine," reported...
that during a "discussion on the socialization of medicine," the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association , Dr. Morris ...
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Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old ...
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The MJK Universal Health Care Plan
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... But with taxes already at a breaking point, government has little recourse but to try to hold down costs. In Quebec, hospitals have been facing budget cuts both in operating expenses and in capital expenditures. Hospital equipment is often outdated, and the number of general hospital beds dropped by 21 per cent from 1972 to 1980. [And s]ince labor is the main component of health costs, incomes of health workers and professionals have been brought under tight government controls..." ( Socialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience : The Advocates (Canada)) The results are in: ...
'Health care rationing is always the result of socialized medicine'
Hyscience —
... Want another example of what socialized medicine does to healthcare? Check out "The Canadian Experience." Want yet another example" Take Hawaii, which gave up on their foray into the world of socialized medicine ...
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