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Originally Posted by Nate the great
The average American already gets better care than the average Canadian it Brit. If you think that means our system has severe problems, then what does that say about GB and Canada?
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The article you quote was first published in the the National Centre for Policy Analysis, a conservative think-tank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...olicy_Analysis
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The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is an American non-profit conservative think tank partially financed by the insurance industry.[1] NCPA states that its goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, education and environmental regulation.
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A fair and balanced source, no doubt. Partially funded by the insurance industry?
If there's one thing people should always do in contentious issues like this is to check the sources of articles for bias and if there are actual sources for statistics. That article you posted had no sources at all.
This is another version of the article with no sources except the author's own book. Very suspect scholarship and journalism. I can't find the March 29 version mentioned in the Hoover article.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=18270