Canada’s ‘Single-Payer’ Health Care System Is a Disaster

There is an unmistakably Canadian complacency that enshrouds and swaddles our national health-care system and insulates it from a critical examination even though leaders of the Canadian Medical Association have declared the system to be on the verge of collapse. Almost everyone who has any acquaintance with Canadian health-care is aware that waiting times imposed even for critical treatments are frequently intolerable, and that allowance for specialized treatment is in fact rationed health care, since only comparatively well-to-do people can afford continuing specialist care beyond the minimal allowance under our health care plans.-- More...