Canadian Health Care Lies In Ruins

Claude Castonguay, the father of the Canadian Health Care(Socialized Medicine) says the Canadian health care system lies in ruin.

Back in the 1960s, Castonguay chaired a Canadian government committee studying health reform and recommended that his home province of Quebec — then the largest and most affluent in the country — adopt government-administered health care, covering all citizens through tax levies.

The government followed his advice, leading to his modern-day moniker: "the father of Quebec medicare." Even this title seems modest; Castonguay's work triggered a domino effect across the country, until eventually his ideas were implemented from coast to coast.

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in "crisis."

And what is the solution he proposes to the 'crisis'?

"We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."

Privatization, that's what. So tell me once again why we should follow their lead, as the Democrat Marxists say we should?

What brought the failure? The same thing that causes failure with any system where it is all offered free, or appears to be free. That in turn causes infinite demand which cannot be met. The result is rationing, which just has to get more serve as demand for free does not moderate itself. In the end, collapse. The moderating factor for market based economies is the market. If goods or services become priced too high, this motivates new suppliers to enter the supply side and take part of the demand.

If you are waiting for your Canadian style health care, this IBD Commentary is a must read.

If price is too high, the supply is too low. Drill here drill now, pay less. Something even the densest no-drill Democrat Marxists should be able to understand, if they wanted to. The problem is the Marxists don't want to, they want control.