Reply #16: You're vastly oversimplifying it [View All]

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That's a "let there be universal health care!" act with little else in it. There's none of the implementation, none of the provincial regulations - I imagine you don't know that health care's a provincial and not a federal matter here in almost all circumstances - and so on.

That act is nowhere near the entirety of Canadian health law, and it's kind of silly to suggest otherwise. I'm looking at the Mental Health Act in one of the smaller provinces right now. It's several times longer than the act you linked, and a good chunk of it consists of amendments to other pieces of legisation of varying lengths.

The American reform bill, at least in theory, has all that implementation and amendments and loophole closures and loopholes and so on in it. If there was a single act called The Canadian Health Care System, I would be deeply surprised if it wasn't in the four-digit range.