Real Canadians talk about their health care
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was talking with someone about media bias and health care. I asked, “What do you know about Canadian health care?”
“Well, I haven’t researched it,” he said, “but I’ve heard it’s really bad.”
“Who has told you it’s bad? Are they people who have researched it themselves?”
“I don’t know what kind of research people do, but you hear it from commentators in the media and people like that.”
“Do you know what Canadians think about it?”
“Well they wouldn’t really know.”
“Huh?”
“They only know their own system. They haven’t experienced ours, so they don’t have anything to compare their system to.”
I’m not sure who can be experts on Canadian health care if Canadians themselves are out of the running, but for what it’s worth, here’s what a few Canadians think:
