{"id":17542,"date":"2010-10-18T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2010-10-18T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T00:08:16","slug":"how-many-canadians-use-american-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/18\/how-many-canadians-use-american-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Canadians Use American Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/crazy-ideas-cartoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17562\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/crazy-ideas-cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/crazy-ideas-cartoon.png 377w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/crazy-ideas-cartoon-282x300.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Owner\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Owner\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Users\/Owner\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every year my parents winter in Florida, and every year they are buttonholed by Americans who insist on telling them how bad Canadian health care is, and then get sniffy when assured that, no, no, it&#8217;s fine, the service is reliable and comprehensive and safe; no long waits, no preventable deaths caused by waiting.\u00a0 Like universal health care everywhere else in the developed world, Canadian Medicare is vastly superior to the American system when it comes to access and cost of delivery (about half what it costs the Americans).\u00a0 The Republicans are of course responsible for the canard that Canadian health care is all about nightmarish waiting lists, and that as a result desperate Canadian patients flood the U.S. border in search of relief (Republicans also insist on calling our system &#8220;socialized medicine,&#8221; which it is not).\u00a0 Over the years they&#8217;ve successfully twisted the reality to fit their propagandized version of it for cynical, self-serving reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But the quantifiable reality of the situation may startle even Canadians.\u00a0 You can see it at a glance after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the peer reviewed journal,<a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/21\/3\/19\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/21\/3\/19\" target=\"_blank\">Health Affairs<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/healthcare1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17982\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/healthcare1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/healthcare1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/healthcare1-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year my parents winter in Florida, and every year they are buttonholed by Americans who insist on telling them how bad Canadian health care is, and then get sniffy when assured that, no, no, it&#8217;s fine, the service is reliable and comprehensive and safe; no long waits, no preventable deaths caused by waiting.\u00a0 Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-canada","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Many Canadians Use American Health Care? 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