LVRJ pushes falsehood that health care reform is modeled on “Canadian-style, rationed” system
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published
From an editorial in the February 26 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Canadians who are not independently wealthy still struggle to raise the cash to avail themselves of superior medical care “south of the border” whenever they consider the problem serious enough. Why is that, if the Canadian system is so good that we should emulate it, as Barack Obama insists?
Medical innovation continues in the United States because it's profitable. Medical innovation has stagnated in Canada because it's not, and because the best doctors and researchers have fled to countries where they can still make money at their trade -- most notably, the United States.
If the United States adopts a Canadian-style, rationed, inferior medical system in which more people die while waiting in line, where will Americans go in pursuit of better care? Where will Canadians go? And won't that lead to precisely the “two-tiered” system -- better care for those with enough money to hop a plane -- that Democrats claim to oppose?
Or will they just refuse to let us leave?
Previously:
Fox News still falsely comparing health care reform legislation to Canadian system
CNN.com joins Republican fear-mongering about Canadian-style health care
Fox's Baier falsely suggests Obama has cited Canada as possible health reform model
WSJ publishes op-ed falsely equating “ObamaCare” with Canadian “single-payer” system
Politico doesn't challenge comparison of Obama health care plan to UK and Canada
Fox News invokes Canadian health care bogeyman in talking about Richardson's death