Canada spends a little over $2,500 a year per capita to provide healthcare for its citizens. What if instead of giving the victims of hurricane Katrina $2,000 credit cards, which will help for a week or two, we had instead given them free health care for an entire year?
I’m not suggesting, of course, that national healthcare would have prevented the hurricane that warranted the emergency credit cards, but it would have helped alleviate some of the poverty that, by any account, contributed to the scope of the disaster.
Now think of the tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars that will be spent rebuilding. If that money had been spent on the recommended environmental improvements, with the remainder going to improving education, providing healthcare, and all those other nasty things liberals are always going on about, we’d be looking at a very different situation right now, wouldn’t we?
An ounce of prevention…
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