{"id":555,"date":"2009-09-15T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2009-09-15T16:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:37:56","slug":"dont-like-waiting-for-health-care-come-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/555\/dont-like-waiting-for-health-care-come-to-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Like Waiting for Health Care? Come to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the U.S. health care system has its flaws.\u00a0 The cost, payment by third parties, government involvement, and defensive medicine are all factors that limit access and drive up costs.\u00a0 But, with the slice of capitalism that still exists in our system, money will always allow\u00a0patients to receive care in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, the government runs the single-payer system and determines what procedures are covered and who receives care.\u00a0 Fortunately, capitalism still exists across the border and a firm has started to make money off of long waiting lines.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, one stop to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timelymedical.ca\/private.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Timely Medical<\/em><\/a> can drastically reduce your waiting time and allow you to leave the rationing to the bureaucrats.\u00a0 One has to wonder if such a company will exist here if the U.S. goes the single-payer route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the U.S. health care system has its flaws.\u00a0 The cost, payment by third parties, government involvement, and defensive medicine are all factors that limit access and drive up costs.\u00a0 But, with the slice of capitalism that still exists in our system, money will always allow\u00a0patients to receive care in a timely fashion. In Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,12],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-canada","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}