More victims of private health insurance

Don't like the idea of free, not-for-profit health care?  Enjoy the system we have?  According to an exclusive New York Times report, our current system neglects those that are supposed to be covered:

Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of deceptive sales tactics and had claimsimproperly denied by private insurers that run the system’s huge newdrug benefit program and offer other private insurance optionsencouraged by the Bush administration, a review of scores of federalaudits has found.

The problems, described in 91 audit reports reviewed by The New YorkTimes, include the improper termination of coverage for people withH.I.V. and AIDS, huge backlogs of claims and complaints, and a failureto answer telephone calls from consumers, doctors and drugstores.

So how about that American health care system.  I'd say that I favor a similar system to the one in Canada, eh!

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One of the compromises made in the Canadian healthcare model was no coverage for prescription drugs or dental - except for life threatening conditions.
Limits are also placed on standards of care - privacy for instance : leaving room for insurance 'add-ons'. It would be a shame to go in looking for less than what is desirable just because industry forced compromises on another country : admittedly those were found necessary to 'get the bird to fly'.