Just a quick link (or two) to Sara Robinson's wonderful insight into the Canadian health care system.
Mythbusting Canadian Health Care -- Part I
Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II: Debunking the Free Marketeers
My favorite line comes from part two:
"I feel a lot better knowing my taxes are taking care of my fellow Canadians rather than buying bombs to drop on Iraqi towns, supporting a fully-equipped CIA gulag, or funding Baghdad pizza deliveries via Halliburton. It's hard to become a worldwide empire when you're putting half your tax revenue into hospitals and doctors, as Canada does. But, on the other hand, it's hard to insure your citizens when half your tax revenue is going to feed your war machine."
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I haven't had time to review the underlying articles, but that quote seems to me to be neither here nor there when it comes to results.
Yes, spending large amounts of money on war is bad. But so is spending larget amounts of money on health care if you don't get good results from it. This is especially true where, like war funding, the money is taken from citizens at the threat of being put into jail.
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