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Canadians living in rural areas sometimes face long trips to see a family doctor. At least two towns have tried to be fair in assigning patients to incoming physicians by creating "doctor lotteries."
Canadians have to put up with long waits to see specialists or get diagnostics like MRIs or CT scans. Now, businesses offering insurance products to help them avoid waiting for a critical test are trying to offer options, but they are finding resistance from special interests within Canada.
Canada's public health care system promises universal coverage, but it does not guarantee universal access on a universal schedule. Long wait times force some Canadians living in pain to go out of country rather than wait 6 months to a year and a half for surgery for non-life-threatening conditions.
Day Care Providers Forcibly Unionized Against Nonexistent Employer
With shrinking private-sector membership, some labor unions are coming up with creative ways to boost membership in the public sector.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop's floor statement regarding a 3% pay raise for unionized State Employees. Freezing pay would save $48 million this year, as Michigan tries to manage a $1.6 billion budget deficit. See related article.
With Canadians enduring pain for months and years while they wait for surgery, traveling to the U.S. for treatment, entering "lotteries" to get a doctor, and getting "wait list insurance," is Canada really a model for U.S. health reform?
The late Milton Friedman discusses the effects of minimum wage, dispelling the myth that it is positive for the economy.
50 Years of Research on the Minimum Wage:
Reason TV explores what consumer choice has done for pet health care
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This speech is from "Other People's Money." In this film, "Larry the Liquidator" (Danny DeVito) explains to shareholders considering a vote on a "hostile" takeover the virtue of encouraging the movement of capital from less productive uses (and managers) to more productive ones, not only because it will make money for them, but because it ultimately increases the overall wealth and well-being of a society.
The City of Detroit is a prime example of what happens when bureaucracy and government become too large.
