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Socialized medicine – oh the horror!!

The outgoing president of the Canadian Medical Association (a doctors’ organization like the AMA), Dr. Robert Ouellet, was a champion for privatization. During this month’s annual meeting, he wanted to “pull out all the stops” to push for private health care. But that effort flew in the face of the most recent poll by Nanos Research, which found that more than 85 percent of Canadians want to strengthen their public health system rather than expand for profit services

Compare that statistic to how the Canadian system is being covered in the US, and it just goes to show that, as Glenn Greenwald said recently on Democracy Now…

the media is depicting this battle, yet again, as being the progressives who are impeding real health care reform … as though the only responsible thing to do is to give in to industry and to force progressives to give up on their belief in a public option … rather than the Blue Dogs giving up on their servitude to industry. And it just shows how the media is never a neutral arbiter in these debates

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