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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Michael Moore's new documentary "SICKO" definitely put the issue of socialized medicine back in the public's imagination
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Side comment $5
It is never a surprise when you dig in to quotes extracted from the net to find out a "motivation" for whatever comments.
It is correct that David Gratzer is a Canadian doctor. But - he is much more than that and heavily involved in US politics and with an agenda. It is hard to see how he can practice as a healthcare professional when he appears to devote all of his time on political committees representing doctors, writing books such as "The Cure: How capitalism can save American health care" and trolling around the lecture circuit. For presumably a busy doctor, he has managed to register probably around 20,000 entries in Google offering his opinions on "how it should be".
Frankly - I don't believe the scenario he quoted...
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... the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine.
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There may have been an exceptional set of circumstances where this happened, but no way is that an example of "universal healthcare". I'm from a UHC country and this would not be tolerated - nor would it be tolerated in any Euro country - and seriously doubt it would happen in Canada under normal circumstances.
If that should in any way represent the UHC standards of Canada - perhaps Dr Gratzer could forget his personal agenda and net publications and perform the functions for which he was trained and actually treat patients
PS It gets boring having to separate fact from fiction on the net and isolating purported balanced and "respectable" comment from the long line of agendas folks have :-)