It depends on how you define "lower healthcare standards".
The former head of the Canadian healthcare system was on TV last night and here is a summary of his interview:
"Dr. Brian Day, an orthopedic surgeon and former president of the Canadian Medical Association, joined The Factor to talk about the woes of the Canadian health care system. Dr. Day said that one of the biggest problems was rationing: "We have over a million people waiting for surgery and probably another million waiting to see the specialists before they get to wait for the surgery. And that's out of a population of 34 million people."
Just do the math -- applying those percentages to the US population, that would be 8.8M waiting for surgery and 8.8M waiting to be diagnosed. The entire premise for upending our system was based on the uninsured. But if you peel-away the illegal aliens, people who can afford healthcare and don't buy it and people who simply don't enroll in programs we already have, you're only talking about 8M people in the first place.
So the irony here is we'd be chucking-in $1.5T (which will be 10x that, just like Medicare was) to "protect" a core of about 8M people -- and installing a system that would put 8.8M of them waiting for surgery and another 8.8M waiting to be diagnosed.
This healthcare "reform" effort isn't about uninsured people anyway. It's about government taking a larger role in everyone's lives. If it were simply about the uninsured, we would just cut them all checks for private insurance and be done with it.
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