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Canada Shows the Way for Healthcare
Submitted by info on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 07:00
by Ralph Nader
21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare
Dear America:
Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal.
In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They did it with index cards!
Below please find 21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare.
Repeal Obamacare and replace it with the much more efficient single-payer, everybody in, nobody out, free choice of doctor and hospital.
Love, Canada
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Democratic Party Leaders Agree to Automatic Medicare Cut
Submitted by info on Mon, 08/01/2011 - 03:10
About a month ago, we revised our issues table on the front page of this website to show that the Progressive Party opposes cuts in Medicare, while the Democrats and Republicans do not. A prominent Democrat questioned our conclusion that the Democratic Party is in favor of Medicare cuts. We said, "Just wait and see." Read more ...
