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Socialized Medicine: What’s in a Name?

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Socialized Medicine: What’s in a Name?
A sign shows the times of temporary emergency department closures at Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital in Sheet Harbour, N.S., on Aug. 6, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Last fall, Jim Carrey, the well-known comedian, talked on “Real Time with Bill Maher” about Canadian single-payer medical care.

“I grew up in Canada, OK? We have socialized medicine,” he said.

Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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