When: Monday, June 7, 2010, 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Where: The Royal Conservatory - TELUS Centre for the Performing Arts, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada
Watch here: Live at 7 p.m. ET
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PRO |
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"Yes, everyone in Canada is covered by a "single payer" - the government. But Canadians wait for practically any procedure or diagnostic test or specialist."
"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world." |
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"Every single industrialized country on the face of the earth has health insurance for all of its people. Why can't we have what all those countries have?"
"Why would we create the inefficiencies and inequities associated with private funding, rather than simply leverage the efficient public system?" |
Munk Debate 2010
Do ballooning healthcare spending, evermore expensive prescription drugs and an increased use of private medicine foreshadow the wholesale reform of Canada's universal, single-payer system? Or, are the divisive debates, social inequities, and sky-high expenditures associated with the U.S. experience with private medicine a validation of Canada's universal Medicare system?
The goal of the 5th semi-annual Munk Debate is to encourage a far-ranging discussion of one of the great policy unknowns facing Canadians: the future of our healthcare system.
Click here for the Munk Debate web site
Debate preview: Video question and answer sessions
Two of the United States strongest voices on opposite sites of the divisive U.S. health care debate sat down with the Globe's Carly Weeks Monday, ahead of the Munk Debates on Health Care and answered reader questions on streaming video. Here are the archived videos of the sessions.
Watch mini-debates ahead of Monday's main event
For more head-to-head debates click here