Health care again...

A comment under the health care post has me thinking that misinformation highways run wide and deep, so I went looking for information on the Canadian form of single payer plans. I want to have an intelligent conversation about this very important subject. Mostly I wanted to know why it is so feared by so many vocal and somewhat ruthless people. After all, under the system we have now, there are 46 million people who have no health care coverage at all, and most of them are children.

Here's what I found; it's from PNHP, Physicians for a National Health Program. It's the clearest statement of why 16,000 physicians across the country think the Canadian system is best for us.

HERE is a FAQ page on Single payer that was put together by the PNHP.

As tangled as our own political system has gotten with the wants and wishes of very, VERY big businesses involved in health care industries, I think we have to start thinking that there may well be a concerted effort to dissemble, both here, in Canada, and world wide.

After all, it's hard to expand our system to other countries, which they would very much like to do, without making some sort of trouble for the countries that already have a more humane and sensible system in place. Big Pharmaceutical companies especially do not like the Canadian government telling THEM how much it will pay for it's big drug purchases.

And more on the subject from YES! Magazine. They have a very interesting take on this.

Just look at Infant Mortality rates in that 2006 article! Woah!