Yes, nationalize health care

[Richard]

http://freep.com/article/20090820/BUSINESS06/908200420/1319/

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On second thought, please don't.  You are our backup system.  I myself would rather drive to Buffalo that wait for hours in a Canadian "hospital" to get "service."  And not to mention much of the country don't even have access to a doctor.  I don't; there's simply no doctors in my area that are taking on new patients, for the past 10 years now.

But guess what?  I sure can find a doctor in Buffalo!  (I know, Buffalo is like the armpit of America, but it is still better than Canada with respect to health-care.)

[Richard]

Let us play a game!  It is called, Find a Doctor in Ontario!  Using the search engine below, and without changing any settings (leave it to ALL so we can find anyone remotely interested in medicine to show up), pick a random town in Ontario and see if they have a doctor!

http://www.cpso.on.ca/docsearch/Default.aspx

Toronto does not count.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Much better to live in Detroit and not have your state government pay for angioplasty in Detroit!

[Linus Van Pelt]

Let us play a game!  It is called, Find a Doctor in Ontario!  Using the search engine below, and without changing any settings (leave it to ALL so we can find anyone remotely interested in medicine to show up), pick a random town in Ontario and see if they have a doctor!

http://www.cpso.on.ca/docsearch/Default.aspx

Toronto does not count.

Both Canada and the U.S. have a shortage of primary care physicians and too many specialists, which has to do with differences in pay and the increased stability of working full-time at a hospital.

It's true that the total doctors per capita is a bit higher in the U.S. than in Canada, but this has little to do with how insurance is provided. Since medicine is basically high-status enough everywhere that there's greater demand than supply for medical school spots, the number of doctors is a function of the supply of medical education (with some effect from immigration laws also), not of the style of insurance. Many European countries with public systems have more doctors than either the U.S. or Canada; the country with the highest number of doctors for its population is actually Cuba, which I take it you don't think is the model to emulate
http://hdrstats.undp.org/indicators/58.html

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I can't imagine a private doctor in small-town Ontario making too much money...

[Holmes]

Let us play a game!  It is called, Find a Doctor in Ontario!  Using the search engine below, and without changing any settings (leave it to ALL so we can find anyone remotely interested in medicine to show up), pick a random town in Ontario and see if they have a doctor!

http://www.cpso.on.ca/docsearch/Default.aspx

Toronto does not count.

Ooh. I found out things I didn't know about my own doctor here.

[Richard]

I can't imagine a private doctor in small-town Ontario making too much money...

Neither can I; it is illegal.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I can't imagine a private doctor in small-town Ontario making too much money...

Neither can I; it is illegal.

Cute.