Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on filmvia Dr. Sanity
Photographs by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Why do some Americans think government run health care is a good idea? I'll take a market driven health care system any day; and I say that as someone who has recently needed major medical care.Even more alarming is that Canada -- one of the biggest spenders among the 30 ranked countries -- provides the worst value for money in health care. This means that Health Canada every year costs Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars without delivering value.
So, what do Canadians say about these assessments?
To start with, the public response to the concept of comparing the publicly funded and governed Canadian system to similar systems around Europe was positive.
The old health policy quarrel between U.S. and Canada is a dead-end; few can deny that comparing Canada to Germany, France or Sweden is more relevant, since these countries share the same values of accessible and efficient health care.
This is where our index begins a new and necessary discussion.Would it be unreasonable to expect Canada to offer better health care to its citizens than Hungary, Latvia or Greece? And what would such improvements take?
At the same time, this perspective received a defensive but typically Canadian objection at media conferences and lectures: "It is true our waiting is long for treatments and new medicines but the outcomes are anyhow quite good - and that is the most essential thing!"
From a European perspective, such an attitude of low expectations or resigned humility is almost extreme.
It reflects the opinion that you cannot ask for public health care to deliver consistent quality: access might be good, but then outcomes are lousy or the other way around. Few Western Europeans would accept that.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.As long as she's the one who's paying for it, otherwise, forget it lady! I do not want to help contribute to raising yet another generation that feel they are owed something by the government. So crack open that Clinton checkbook Hil, and get your dirt scratchers outta my wallet. As far as I'm concerned you're full of crap on this one.
Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.
"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home," she said.
The New York senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.<
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.That's right...you must go to the doctor. John Edwards demands it. After all, like all liberals, he knows what's best for you. Just don't drive yourself in an SUV.
"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."
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