Video: So You’re Trying to Get a Hip Replacement in Canada

Published December 10, 2009 12:25am ET



Another great video from Reason.TV on the true story of a Canadian woman who had to fly to Oklahoma City to get a hip replacement after she was denied care by health care bureaucrats up North:



But surely this could never happen in America. Obamacare isn’t single-payer. And to argue that one of the unintended–er, intended–consequences of Obamacare would be a single-payer system, with the accompanying rationing of health care, down the road is just baseless scaremongering, right? Only a demagogue would argue that we’d have to have a “difficult democratic conversation” about whether or not grandma would get her hip replaced.