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<blockquote data-quote="knightablaze" data-source="post: 602362" data-attributes="member: 24580">If you had read and watched your four source materials I feel you would have come to a different conclusion.The <a href="http://bridgetdgms.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/mothers-tragic-tale-underscores-big-flaws-of-canadian-health-care/" target="_blank">Shona Holmes</a> news story has already been shown to be something of a Republican shill. Her disease was not cancerous and was treated successfully in a timely manner. Hardly poor health treatment.Swine flu or H1N1 is a virus that&#039;s caught every government off guard. Vaccines are in production and probably won&#039;t be ready for a full deployment this winter. It&#039;s, again, not a problem affecting just the Canadian healthcare system. Plus, I feel testing a vaccine for efficacy and safety before administering it to the entire population is smarter policy than the USA&#039;s fast-track strategy.The Star Tribune&#039;s article I already vetted...moving on...The Real News Network - producer of [media=youtube]gG4AZaubFew[/media]has only been around two years and seems to be on track to be a real news force in the future. Their transparency is laudable, but they&#039;re also questionably optimistic [$3 million &quot;cumulative&quot; profit beyond net income by 2012] and I don&#039;t entirely trust their reports.However, their video seems to suggest that Canadian healthcare is flawed in only a couple of areas. Their interviewee suggests that Canadian healthcare could be improved through greater attention to a patient&#039;s needs and further reform to allow private clinics greater freedom of business. She is expressly against privatization and even helps point out that Canadian opponents [shills?] of American reform are often misrepresenting Canadian healthcare.All four of your sources point to a Canadian system that takes care of its patients but must also reform to tackle growing challenges before they spiral out of hand. Overall it seems to be a stable system that USA could learn from and possibly strive for. Is that enough bullets in your foot, or should we reload?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knightablaze, post: 602362, member: 24580"] If [I]you[/I] had read and watched your four source materials I feel you would have come to a different conclusion. The [URL='http://bridgetdgms.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/mothers-tragic-tale-underscores-big-flaws-of-canadian-health-care/']Shona Holmes[/URL] news story has already been shown to be something of a Republican shill. Her disease was not cancerous and was treated successfully in a timely manner. Hardly poor health treatment. Swine flu or H1N1 is a virus that's caught every government off guard. Vaccines are [I]in production[/I] and probably won't be ready for a full deployment this winter. It's, again, not a problem affecting just the Canadian healthcare system. Plus, I feel testing a vaccine for efficacy and safety before administering it to the entire population is smarter policy than the USA's fast-track strategy. The Star Tribune's article I already vetted...moving on... The Real News Network - producer of [media=youtube]gG4AZaubFew[/media] has only been around two years and seems to be on track to be a real news force in the future. Their transparency is laudable, but they're also questionably optimistic [$3 million "cumulative" profit beyond net income by 2012] and I don't entirely trust their reports. However, their video seems to suggest that Canadian healthcare is flawed in only a couple of areas. Their interviewee suggests that Canadian healthcare could be improved through greater attention to a patient's needs and further reform to allow private clinics greater freedom of business. She is expressly against privatization and even helps point out that Canadian opponents [shills?] of American reform are often misrepresenting Canadian healthcare. All four of your sources point to a Canadian system that takes care of its patients but must also reform to tackle growing challenges before they spiral out of hand. Overall it seems to be a stable system that USA could learn from and possibly strive for. Is that enough bullets in your foot, or should we reload? [/QUOTE]

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