We've previously noted here the opinions of health care rationing champion Henry Aaron of The Brookings Institute.
"Single-Payer" health care advocate and defender of the Canadian health care system Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health Program concurs with Aaron's idea of coercive government control of medicine, however, he just doesn't like the word 'rationing':
We cannot allow Aaron's use of the term "rationing" to be used by the opponents of single payer to attack our model. It has been demonstrated repeatedly that improving use of health care resources prevents excessive queues.
Perhaps Mr. Canne could point to a single country where his "single-payer model" has been implemented without rationing and waiting lists. Certainly, he can't be talking about Canada (see here, here, here, here, or here) or the U.K. (see here, here, here, here, here, or here).
9 Feb 2006 @ 5:50am