If You Tell A Lie Enough Times ...

People will believe it:

It is certainly time that Canada ceased to regard its health-care system as a gigantic sacred cow of national distinction and uniqueness, and instead undertook an examination of its strong and weak points, in order to make sensible reforms. Our existing system was established 40 years ago, in the last term of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his health minister, Monique Bégin. Trudeau departed from the model of a universal health-care system set by Saskatchewan under Premier Tommy Douglas 20 years before and joined North Korea and Cuba as the only countries in the world that declared private health care to be illegal. It also differed from the Douglas model by not having any user fees.  ...

(Sidebar: you see, he wanted to prove to special Quebec how big he was.)

By banning private medicine, Trudeau drove 10,000 doctors out of the country in the first couple of years. Our ratio of doctors to population is inferior not only to almost every other advanced country in the world, but even to such places as Argentina and Cuba. With an insufficiency of doctors and no user fees to discourage frivolous recourse to the health-care system, we are stretching an ever-tighter amount of available medical services over a steadily growing population. As a result, we end up rationing health care. The widespread belief among Canadians that everyone is receiving adequate health care at an affordable cost is essentially a fraud. If we incentivize the graduation of more doctors, and enable those who chose to, to deal with legitimate problems outside the public health-care system and have the costs deducted from their taxable income, a great deal of pressure would be removed from the public health-care system and much more comprehensive treatment would be available to people of modest means. The idea of equal treatment for everybody, regardless of their means, was always just a socialist fairy tale.

 

This healthcare system:

A new report has ranked Canada's health system second last, ahead of the United States, among high-income countries.