He also brought up a Canadian PM Danny Williams that went to Miami for a surgery, because he wanted the “best care”.
Danny Williams went south for his surgery becuase he went to a luxury spa hotel, not becuase he couldn’t get the care here, as do a good portion of those seeking care in the US, it’s not about the lack of care in Canada, but the lack of private luxury.
“46,000 Canadians left Canada in 2011 to seek healthcare in other countries. 46,000 people who would rather pay out of pocket than get “free” healthcare.”
This is less than 0.2% of the population of Canada, plus as i said above it’;s often about luxury rather than care, but the real misleading thing about that number is that it also includes those that went to the US covered under their provincial plan, sometimes becuase that’s where a particular sepcialist is or earlier openings for surgery when waits are long in Canada.
Not to mention thousands of Americans who come to Canada for care, even Sarah Palin admited to it.
So approximately 0.027% of Americans left the country for health care while 0.13% of Canadians left the country for healthcare. In other words, as a proportion of their respective countries, Canadians are 5 times more likely to leave their country for health care than Americans. Got it.
America doesn’t have a free economy. Therefore, the higher costs are to blame on the government’s enforcement of a mixed economy with regulations and moral hazard. So that fact didn’t prove a thing.
Danny Williams doesn’t matter to me.
Nor do I care that Canadians profess to love socialism. That doesn’t mean anyone else is obligated to.
And thousands of Canadians come to the US for healthcare, so it doesn’t matter. And Sarah Palin isn’t a good source, just for future reference.
But again, your problem, kylio, is that you think the US has a free market in health care, meaning you ignore the AMA, the FDA, Medicaid, Medicare, insurance regulations, hospitals regulations, college regulations, pharmaceutical manufacturers regulations, tax break given to employers for employees insurance, privileges given to Blue Cross/Anthem, ACA, etc. etc. Anyone who has a problem with American health care industry should not be looking for the cause of the problems, government, to fix it.
This is an appeal to the majority and thus a logical fallacy.
There are apparently about 34,939,000 people in Canada right now (source) and 314,519,000 people in the United States (source). So about 0.13% of Canadians went abroad for healthcare as opposed to about 0.027% of Americans. Proportionally speaking, then, nearly five times as many Canadians went abroad for healthcare.
For one thing, that link is broken. For another, I have no idea what you (or the NYT blog) mean by “cost”.
“For another, I have no idea what you (or the NYT blog) mean by “cost”.”
Probably per capita spending. Of course it never occurs to these dolts that a country with no health care system at all will have lower per capita spending on health care than any other country on the planet. Must be a great system too if it costs them next to nothing!