Dick Morris seems correct about Canadian healthcare

CANADIAN HEALTH CARE: COMING SOON TO THE USA by Dick Morris and Eileen McCann//In our new book, Catastrophe, we spell out exactly how the Obama health care proposals will lead to a Canadian style socialized medicine -- and we explain the consequences.
* A 16% higher cancer death rate in Canada
* An eight week wait for radiation therapy for cancer patients
* 42% of Canadians die of colon cancer vs. 31% in the US
* Cutbacks in diagnostic testing
* The best meds for chemo therapy are not available
* No way out of the system; you can't even pay for services yourself
Why is health care so bad north of the border? Because there are too few doctors to treat everybody and cost savings -- which slice medical incomes -- drive doctors out of the profession. When Obama calls for a 21% cut in Medicare fees to physicians and a $2500 cut in health costs per capita, that is exactly the kind of downward spiral in medical care quality he will bring to the United States. By making too few doctors cover too many patients, he will cut the quality of care to everybody.
As Obama's proposals make their way through Congress, it is vital that we all get up to speed on what is happening in Canada, so we can stop it from happening here. It is through word of mouth that we need to spread the information to undermine public support for the changes Obama would bring. That's why we wrote Catastrophe.***
THOSE WHO DONT KNOW 'STAN' ---- HE IS A RETIRED PHYSICIAN IN TORONTO, Shirley
Hi Stan: Are these statistics true? I would like to pass it on to my American friends. Shirley/// Hi Shirley, I checked on the statistics and they are correct. The U.S. has the best survival rates for all cancers except testicular cancer than any other country.The waiting period in Toronto for radiation is at least 2 months. Many people in Southern Ontario are being offered times way up in Sudbury where waiting times are only about 3 weeks. Only one Gamma machine is available right now in Ontario as well. The waiting period for most orthopedic surgery can be as long as a year in some hospitals especially if you want a top surgeon. In Ont. you cannot have any medical care outside the plan. In Quebec a couple of private clinics have opened up but the govt. hasn't done anything to the province because they don't want to upset the French. Stan ***That is, the Federal government doesn't want private healthcare outside the "plan" but doesn't enforce this in Quebec because of the constant conflict between the French province and the rest of Canada. Now, Canadian doctors can emigrate to the U.S. Under Obamacare, American doctors have nowhere to go so it will take a generation for American medicine to degenerate to third-world standards but fewer Americans will go into medicine and more will retire earlier.***