Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare

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The video is 90 minutes long but Bernie Sanders is leading the discussion so I'm sure it will be informative to those of us not familiar in single payer health care.

Watch an expert teach a smug U.S. senator about Canadian healthcare


By Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-watch-a-canadian-20140312,0,2995139.story#axzz2vnmTr0im

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A U.S. politician's I-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts approach to health policy ran smack into some of those troublesome facts Tuesday at a Senate hearing on single-payer healthcare, as it's practiced in Canada and several other countries.

The countries in question have successful and popular government-sponsored single-payer systems, provide universal coverage and match or outdo the United States on numerous measures of medical outcomes -- for far less money than the U.S. spends. To explain this, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked seven experts to testify before his subcommittee on primary health and aging.

Those interested in how the U.S. matches up should watch the whole 90-minute session, viewable below. (The official subcommittee hearing record is also available.)


http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-watch-a-canadian-20140312,0,2995139.story#ixzz2vnnEUUTc


http://www.c-span.org/video/?318225-1/hearing-health-care-access-costs





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1. Here is a quicker link to the discussion.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/canadian-health-official-schools-arrogant?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter