Canada currently has a "single payer" healthcare system, which basically saying that the Canadian government pays for all of the healthcare of it's citizens.
On it's face, people might think this sounds great. Pay taxes, get healthcare anytime you need it. But that's not really how it works out.
First, Canadians pay very high taxes, even compared to people in the US. Second, they've allowed the government to pay for their healthcare, which means that the government CONTROLS their healthcare. Whoever controls your healthcare gets to make the decisions, even if indirectly.
Canadians are waiting an average of 21.2 weeks to receive treatment from a specialist. This is a direct result of the government running their single payer system.
In the US, 0bamacare was designed to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the taxpayers. Insurance rates have skyrocketed. Even the cheapest 0bamacare plan has become too expensive for poor Americans to afford. In the hospital I work at, we still have the same amount of patients without insurance as before. They're not paying their bills.
Once Americans have had enough of the punishment, they will cry for a single payer system. That's the goal, the original intent of 0bamacare. The US healthcare system accounts for one sixth of the entire US economy. The government would love to have control of that sector.
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