Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Single payer, single message

With the overlapping Saskatoon events held by the Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Doctors for Medicare taking place the same weekend as the federal NDP convention, I didn't get much opportunity to comment at the time. But fortunately, much of the message of Canadian Doctors for Medicare has been nicely distilled into a handy video which deserves plenty of play on both sides of the border - and which features a couple of familiar faces:



Not that it's likely that the direction in the U.S. will change from its current course - which appears to have a fairly strong chance of including a public insurance option, but doesn't look likely to radically change the system's funding structures. But if the Democrats want to look toward a more ambitious plan now that it's long since been made clear that they're not going to win bipartisan support for anything of substance, this would be an excellent place to start.

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