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Charles Taylor: In a health care forum I had a nurse from Canada stand up and testify as to how horrible the system was, how that she…

On the recordMarch 21, 1994
In a health care forum I had a nurse from Canada stand up and testify as to how horrible the system was, how that she could not stand the fact that they could not take care of patients, could not apply medicine as she had been taught, they did not have the resources to do it. They had to watch people wait and die, in my cases, because of the rash nature of that system. The gentleman said it--I think both the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] and from Georgia [Mr. Kingston] have hit the right thing. The McDermott, the Clinton, the Cooper bill, are all bills that believe that more Government, more of your tax money, more regulations, will do for health care a better system that what we have and an improved system in the world. On the other hand, there are those of us who recognize that there are problems in our health care system.
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Charles Taylor
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the shortcomings of the Canadian health care system and contrasting it with proposed U.S. health care reforms.

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