Canadian Politics Today

Canadians would rather just point at the US and do nothing instead of doing anything to improve their own system.

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I agree.  Private Healthcare gets the boogeyman treatment because the US system has their problems.  I think if they much better regulated insurance policies (ie cost controls, making preexisting conditions irrelevant etc) and other controls it would be a better system.  No idea how much better,  but clearly their current system is too deregulated.

This whole topic is a bit of a Liberal boogeyman because Otoole doesn't set provincial healthcare policy.