Re:Canada's population is booming – access to family doctors...
by alephnerd on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:29PM
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Canadian Medicare is also largely based on the NHS system back in the UK, which is also buckling for similar reasons.
Both the Canadian and British Single Payer system are holdovers from the post-war Old Labour era, specifically, the vision of Clement Attlee in the UK and Tommy Douglas in Canada.
I think a lot of people forget that Canada was basically Britain-lite until the 70s and 80s (hell, Newfoundland was under direct British rule until 1945), when Americanization became more prominent in the younger post-war generation.
Most of the Canadian leadership until the 1980s studied in the UK, were born in the UK, or were the children of immigrants from the UK. And specifically blue collar Labour Party leaning parts of Scotland. As such, a lot of the policies and legislation passed in Canada before the 80s or 90s tends to have a significant amount of British influence in it.
Australia's is similar as well, but they moved towards a public-private model in the late 1990s after their economy almost collapsed in the early 1990s.
Both the Canadian and British Single Payer system are holdovers from the post-war Old Labour era, specifically, the vision of Clement Attlee in the UK and Tommy Douglas in Canada.
I think a lot of people forget that Canada was basically Britain-lite until the 70s and 80s (hell, Newfoundland was under direct British rule until 1945), when Americanization became more prominent in the younger post-war generation.
Most of the Canadian leadership until the 1980s studied in the UK, were born in the UK, or were the children of immigrants from the UK. And specifically blue collar Labour Party leaning parts of Scotland. As such, a lot of the policies and legislation passed in Canada before the 80s or 90s tends to have a significant amount of British influence in it.
Australia's is similar as well, but they moved towards a public-private model in the late 1990s after their economy almost collapsed in the early 1990s.