One of the things that bother me, mentioned in the article is private healthcare. Communists think allowing it is going to "create separate castes." All the doctor and nurses who want more money work in the us. Banning private healthcare just means that: people who can afford the procedure and the flight to a different country, and the time off work can have better/sooner care (a rich person's club) those dollars leave the country, people just priced out can't alleviate demand from the public system. So banning it just means the private caste is more exclusive and worsens the economy.

Canadians continue to be fed lies about the medical system by politicians and the media. The typical story is accept and love Canada’s universal healthcare system or suffer under the US system where even a relatively small ailment can bankrupt a patient.

Of course this is nonsense. The US system offers many options to patients and many American residents are adequately insured. In addition, medicare provides access to treatment for many others. This could be the topic for several volumes but it is enough to say the common perception of the American system held by many Canadians is just woefully incorrect.

More importantly, many other countries manage to provide residents with hybrid systems mixing public and privately funded healthcare. And many of these systems work very well. Limiting a comparison of Canada’s system to that of the US ignores dozens of other countries who successfully provide residents with affordable, quality and timely healthcare. Some countries that many Canadians would disparagingly refer to as third-world can match or exceed canada’s healthcare delivery. (And the irony is that the Canadian system is replete with “third world” workers.) These countries often have modern, fully-equipped doctors offices and hospitals that are state-of-the-art. Wait times are often negligible. Medicine is cheap and available. Doctors are well trained. It is time for Canadians to insist on the authorities addressing the problems with Canada’s system in a way that does not simply raise taxes and hire more bureaucrats. More doctors are needed. More options are needed for the consumer. Alas, this will never be fixed.