Talk:Two-tier health care

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I am removing the Left Wing bias on this article and will attempt to make a fair article. It's embarrassing.

[edit] Supreme Court of Canada decision on Quebec

Now that the Supreme Court has found that Quebec's ban on two-tier health care goes against the Quebec Bill of Rights, and thus invalidated Quebec's ban on private health insurance covering primary care, I have added it to the article. I certainly hope no one edits it out of the article even though it is a stated and documented fact, especially for political reasons. Socialism and Marxism has its own articles if you care to further your beliefs using Wikipedia.

Well, anonymous poster, I'm a socialist but I wish you'd put in more about it. One of the problems with the current debate about health care in Canada is that reality is ignored in favour of reiteration of questionable doctrinal beliefs. After which more money is thrown at the health care system without getting any assurance it will be spent sensibly.

The real problem in Canada is that the citizenry, left or right or centre, doesn't want to think about facts but prefers to lecture other people about how immoral they are. That seems to be the NDP position, for example, and Roy Romanow's (you may be interested in this socialist commentary about the Romanow report which elaborates on this idea). John FitzGerald 13:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need help removing POV statement

This sentence is found near the end of the article: In any case, because of these issues, the Canadian people are overwhelmingly opposed to the notion of two-tier health care because this would promote social inequality. "Overwhelmingly" reads as POV. How do we know it is "overwhelmingly" and not "most" or "many"? Also, how do we know those who opposed to "the notion" do so for the reason stated above? If there are so many opposed to it, isn't it possible that some of them do so for other reasons? AED 3 July 2005 05:54 (UTC)

Agreed, I have rewritten that section to state that Canadians are "largely opposed" to it, and gave the Canadian Alliance's forceful denials of supporting the idea as evidence. - SimonP July 3, 2005 11:34 (UTC)

Good work. It does read much better now. AED 3 July 2005 18:55 (UTC)

I do recall having once read a poll suggesting that, in fact, (slightly) more than 50% of Canadians were in favour of some variety of private health care, with the surprising fact that the lowest proportion of support occured in Alberta (at something like 52%?). However I have no citation nor recollection of who did it or when it was done and as such will be making absolutely no changes until I can prove anything. David Corbett 15:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)