Frame Canada: Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might… like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925354134/frame-canada
Wow at the gymnastics and hoop jumping of that article to try to apply a term that does not match the common fear mongering use of the word or even the situation. Classic clickbait headline.
Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act has been on the books for nearly two decades. Like similar laws in many Canadian provinces—and American states—it sets out the process for making treatment decisions when a patient cannot provide or withhold her consent—when she is in a coma and on life support, for example.
America has them too. The above is from the same Slate article you linked.
Maybe don’t just pick and choose portions of an article that match your confirmation bias.
Damn, a real world example of South Park’s Blame Canada!
eh?
Slate says hello…from 2013.
Canada quite literally does have “Death Panels”. Regardless of how you feel about the UHC debate that part wasn’t made up.
Wow at the gymnastics and hoop jumping of that article to try to apply a term that does not match the common fear mongering use of the word or even the situation. Classic clickbait headline.
You should listen to the podcast.
America has them too. The above is from the same Slate article you linked.
Maybe don’t just pick and choose portions of an article that match your confirmation bias.