Tommy Douglas warned the Canadian people that its single-payer health care system should only be seen as a very short-term solution and a not-for-profit socialized health care system would be required for the long haul.
The Canadian people procrastinated in heeding Tommy Douglas’ advice and now the pandemic is becoming over-bearing as this article explains.
This should be a lesson to us here as we contemplate health care reform.
Obviously Obamacare has failed under the burden of this catastrophic coronavirus pandemic.
Medicare for All will fare no better.
The profit motive for health care must be completely eliminated at all levels... including the delivery stage.
Only a fully socialized National Public Health Care System can provide the kind of quality health care required...
Publicly funded.
Publicly administered.
Publicly delivered.
Nothing at all controversial in spite of being socialized health care... public education serves as the model. Is anyone afraid of public education? No. So, why should anyone oppose a National Public Health Care System which would provide us all free world-class health care? The cost would be phenomenally cheap... it could all be financed from the current pay-roll tax which funds Medicare... far cheaper than what passes for health care now and a lot cheaper than Medicare for All.
Those from insurance companies to hospitals and nursing homes and doctors will all decry socialized health care...
But their free-market for-profit health care systems are killing us.
We need a national network of community-based health centers in every community providing general health care and this health care must include pharmaceutical prescriptions, vision, dental and hearing along with family planning, pre-natal and abortion as well as mental health care... free health care through burial.
A National Public Health Care System would create over twelve-million new jobs... there is no better job creating program that would do much good.
We must struggle for the health care required not waste our time with what is politically expedient for selfish, self-serving Wall Street bribed politicians.
We need a new working class based people’s party with the integrity and courage to fight for a National Public Health Care System.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/12/americas/ontario-lockdown-canada-stay-at-home-order/index.htmlpp