Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, "Steven P. McNicoll" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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Economists who can count all the inputs say that in total, Canada spends
considerably less per person on health care than the US. And unlike the
US, they don't leave out 1/4 of the population while doing it.
Canadian hospitals have less modern equipment available than American
hospitals do. They depend on American medicines after destroying incentives
to develop their own with price controls. They buy American medicines in
bulk covering only the manufacturing costs, while American hospitals have to
cover development costs as well. In short, American health care is better
than Canadian health care.

You have proof for any of those assertions, or did you just pull the whole
thing out of your ass? And since when does paying less for the same drugs
equate to having worse health care? It sounds better to me. Sounds
better to those busloads of Amercians coming across the border to buy
them, too.

Busloads of Americans coming to the border to save some bucks on drugs sound a lot
better than the busloads of Canadians going South to get timely badly needed medical
care, due to long waiting lines at government run hospitals back home. [Wall Street
Journal 7/23/02 "Socialized medicine is a real headache."]