re eight myths about national health insurance pt ii in article c wx u ii acsu buffalo edu v pxgt ubvmsb cc buffalo edu daniel b case writes in article apr news columbia edu gld cunixb cc columbia edu gary l dare writes i ve come to learn to suspect anything in the american press about our system if much or some of it were true you d have to take us for idiots for tolerating it and given that our insurance was installed during a period when there were only liberal and tory governments federally and provincially and the socialists are still chafing they would ve pressed for real socialized medicine to fix things think about it after all we are using the u s as a metric to make comparison both for keeping up with the joneses as for confirming that we did something right true but remember that most of the canadian bashing exists because american proponents of your system make it look like it walks on water even you don t go that far sorry but i d have to differ the canadian bashing wrt to the health insurance system is largely with little evidence or prompting having kept up with this debate on the net for some months just about all the criticism of the canadian system has misquoted or misinterpreted even the anti canadian propaganda put out by the american insurance industry and the ama in a few cases such as mr case the critiques are well reasoned and worthy of response most others are misinformed illogical or just plain dumb i don t think the same can be said of the american proponents of the canadian system much less of the canadian proponents jsh steve hendricks domain steveh thor isc br com one thing about data it sure does cut uucp uunet isc br thor steveh the bulls t r hofferbert ma bell
