Here a intresting example about your health care
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Tom Green's hidden health-care lesson -Michelle Malkin - Linky</a>
"Green's mom scoured the Internet for the best American specialists money could buy when her son developed painful symptoms in January. Her search led to the USC Medical Center. Green was diagnosed there with testicular cancer in early March. Four days after receiving the diagnosis, top-notch surgeons removed his tumorous right testicle. One week later, after a CAT scan of his lymph nodes showed no signs of cancerous cells, Green's doctors went ahead and dissected his lymph nodes -- just to make sure the disease hadn't spread."
"In Tom Green's home province of Ontario, the Canadian Medical Association Journal recently reported, 121 residents were permanently removed from the list for coronary artery bypass grafts because their condition had deteriorated irreversibly while waiting for treatment. Koreans and Czechs have better access to computerized tomography than Canadians do."
"Under the Canadian regime, bureaucrats -- not doctors, patients or hospitals -- set fees, make purchases, and allocate resources. Politics inevitably infect these decisions, overriding the best interests of the sick and needy.
The deadly effect of government-controlled health care is no joke. Tom Green is living proof that the free market offers the best medicine."
Personal note: A friend of mine, in Winnipeg, was on a waiting 2 week list to see a doctor about cold symptoms. What if she had SARS, she could have spread it to many more before she could have been treated.
I don't really know much about your <i>"free"</i>health care system, but I don't want a version of the DMV making health choices for me. Government can fuck up anything.