It would seem that when it comes to overhauling the healthcare system, Obama is not sailing that river alone. The CMA (that's the Canadian Medical Association) has decided that Canada's healthcare system (the one some Canadians claim to be a great system, better than the US's) also needs an overhaul.
What? Wait, are they saying that Canada's Universal Healthcare System is not working properly? Apparently so according to Dr Anne Doig:
"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize"
"We know that there must be change. We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."
So basically the Obama Administration is desperately pushing a healthcare reform system partially based on Canada's concept of Universal Healthcare? A healthcare system that the CMA believes needs it's own overhauling? But if this doesn't tickle your fancy, guess what they believe may be the solution to this growing problem?
This is what Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA had to say:
"it's possible to make wait lists disappear while maintaining universal coverage and "that competition should be welcomed, not feared."
What Competition you ask? Ouellet believes that a private health-care delivery within the public system could be what it needs. Private Healthcare ladies and gentlemen, Private Healthcare. Funny, considering the Obama Administration believes it is the Private System in the US who's causing all the problems. Now this is not to say that the Canadian Healthcare System does not have it's good things but even the incoming President of the CMA Anne Doig says that many people had things go bad for theme in this system:
"(Canadians) have to understand that the system that we have right now - if it keeps on going without change - is not sustainable," said Doig.
Isn't that what is believed is happening to the current US healthcare system? So, I ask my fellow Americans of all party affiliations, do we need reform? Yes. Is the current system failing? Yes. Is the solution to the current problem "MORE" Gov't intervention and control? No.
If nothing else convinces you that the current Healthcare reform concept of the Obama Administration has failure written all over it, ask yourself this:
With 255 Democrats vs 178 Republicans in Congress Link and a Filibuster Proof 60 seat Senate plus a Democrat President, why are the Democrats struggling at all to pass this reform? Why are they tying so hard to convince people that this reform is as good as they say when they managed to take control of all 3 houses in the last elections with little problems? With a majority previously in favor of this reform, why is it that all of a sudden Obama seems to be losing this battle to pass healthcare reform? Why are these "hand-full" of unhappy, angry Americans (brown-shirts, racist, unAmerican, disruptor's, ignorant, stupid, liars, swastika carrying crazy kooks on the right as Pelosi, Reid and many other members of the US Gov't and many people on JU, the Media and other sites call them) making any difference to them?
I don't know about you, but when the Canadian Medical Association believes that Canada's current healthcare system needs an overhaul, when they went to Europe and came back convinced their system may be unsustainable and when with all the control a political party in the US could ever wish for is not enough to get this reform passed faster and easier than hitting the Staples Easy Button, somethings gotta be wrong here. And if you are too party blind to see this may not be as good an idea as it sounded at first then even this healthcare reform of Obama's won't save you at all. Think about it.
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