What Americanization of Health Care Really Means
Those Canadians who wish our health care system more closely resembled that of our neighbours to the south, please read this compelling article from www.straightgoods.ca"Insurance companies truly drive every aspect of "care".
Dateline: Friday, December 16, 2005
by Kathy Eisner and Ish Theilheimer
What actually matters in election campaigns can get obscured by all the hubbub.
Our family got a frightening view of what, for us, is a highly motivating political issue as we watched Kathy's sister Peggy lose a two-year struggle with the US health care system and colon cancer at Christmastime last year. Dying of cancer was bad enough, but the inhumanity and downright cruelty of the American system was infuriating and shocking to us, as it would have been for most Canadians.
Most Canadians are not aware of how bad it is in the States. In America, the bottom line of the insurance companies is truly the driving force in health care. It drives everything from diagnostics to treatment to palliative care. At every point, the companies squeeze patients and doctors in ways Canadians would find incomprehensible."
The doctors and hospitals clearly passed off less lucrative procedures to one another.
Read rest of this chilling article here
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