Health Care Black Market

[aztecwin]

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The Black Market in Canada that is developing is just like I had predicted would happen here if a public government option were to become law and aqueeze out everything else. Glad this lady was able to get help in Montana, but the cost does not have to be like that if logical reform is done here. Maybe Canada will follow suit.

[AztecWilliam]

I, too have been warning about this very issue. There is no way you can say that there is no government rationing of health care in Canada. There are just too many examples such as the one mentioned in the article to believe otherwise. Perhaps what Obama is talking about (does anybody know exactly "what he is talking about" really means at this point?) is not a complete take-over of health care by the government, but the seeds of that noxious weed are being planted nonetheless.

And, if there ever should be an iron-fisted rationing set up here (just to make things fair, of course! ) you can be damned sure that wealthy people are going to see to it that they or their relatives get the care they need when they want it. That will end up being the worst of both worlds: rationing by the government AND by price. Health care by rationing for the common folk and rationing by price for those to whom money is either not an issue or perhaps only a minor consideration.

And that does not sound fair to me.

AzWm