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Bunnahabhain

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7. Private healthcare is for all intents and purposes illegal in Canada.

Reply to pampango (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 3, 2013, 12:39 PM

Sep 2013

Please read the Canadian Medicare laws, specifically the definition of "core services" in the Health Act of 1984. If you read the dicta you will see they were designed specifically, and it is stated explicitly, to prevent the formation of a parallel and private system.

Here is an article in the recent evolution but please note the same reference I gave you to the 1984 Health Act. http://www.longwoods.com/content/19340

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What model should the US use to provide universal healthcare? [View all] Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 OP

I like the concept of the National Health Service as in the UK. pampango Sep 2013 #1

I would be ok with a National Health Service is schooling for doctors and nurses in the bluestate10 Sep 2013 #5

Private healthcare is for all intents and purposes illegal in Canada. Bunnahabhain Sep 2013 #7

I've grown used to the Japanese system Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #2

Single payer with private and public options AngryAmish Sep 2013 #3

I prefer a private system with Insurance companies and hospitals forced to live up bluestate10 Sep 2013 #4

Taxpayer funded no-frills healthcare for all. Nye Bevan Sep 2013 #6