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Economist Dean Baker has a link to an NPR story about the Canadian health care system at his blog Beat the Press. And shockingly, it turns out that Canadians don’t leave cancer patients to die, as the folks at Americans for the Prosperous would have you believe.

Obama’s plan is nothing close to the Canadian system, but the zealots on the Right keep invoking Canadian healthcare as the bogeyman anyway, thinking it will strike fear in our hearts.

The story on Morning Edition interviews a man with colon cancer who says he hasn’t had to wait for his care, finds that doctors in Canada make a lot of money, and that Canada spends half of what the U.S. does on health care and does better on health indicators.

Is all that what we are supposed to be so scared of?

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  1. Kimberly
    August 11, 2009 at 7:43 am

    The Canadian Government has also spoken out against the right wing lies against their system. Right wing groups such as AFP are not interested in the truth or in helping others, their only goal is to stop Health Care Reform at all costs thereby defeating President Obama and marring his Presidency (or so they think anyway).

    Their fear mongering tactics and lies do nothing more than sway those who refuse to accept change and refuse to think for themselves. They just can’t accept or understand that we have to reform our Health Care System and the best way to ensure that everyone has equal access to health care and that the insurance companies play fairly is to have a Public Health Plan. I don’t quite understand how they could want to maintain the status quo.

    It is nothing more than power, greed, and fear for them and they could care less about others or what kind of future we will leave for our children if we don’t reform our Health Care System.