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Universial "free" healthcare sounds good in theory,but according to these links it does not seem to be working very well.


https://www.city-journal.org/html/ug...are-13032.html

http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/bacchus-b...b_6004034.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e3264fa1964d

"According to these links." Ok then, let's go down the list. City Journal is a magazine published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank.

The second is a HuffPost blog post written by a fellow at the Fraser Institute, which is a libertarian public policy think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

The third link actually makes the opposite argument of what you are making, it paints the Canadian health care system in a mostly POSITIVE light. It does acknowledge that long wait times are a problem, but also points out that:
1) Healthcare outcomes in the Canadian healthcare system are very good, among the best for industrialized nations
2) The cost of health care, which higher than average for OECD nations, is still far below what Americans spend on health care.
3) Canadians are, by and large, very happy and satisfied with their health care system.

And "doesn't seem to be working well?" In comparison to what exactly? The American health care system? 57% of Canadians are satisfied with their national health care system, only 25% of Americans are satisfied with the care they receive through the U.S. health care system [[from your third link).

If Universal Health Care "isn't working well", then by comparison, how's the U.S. for-profit healthcare system working out? Great?

The argument that because the Canadian health care system has flaws means that it is not worthwhile or that our system is better is a flawed argument. When polled, most Canadians think the best way to fix their national health care system is to put MORE money into it, not less, and certainly not to privatize it.