Tom,

I am curious if your doctor is a hard core liberal with a particular socialized worldview? The reason why I ask is a recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports doctors saying the opposite than what your doctor is saying. Moreover, patients in Canada have an extremely long wait for the simplist of procedures. An acquaintance of mine has a sister in Cananda that took her three to four months for her to see a specialist for her back problem. She eventually had to spring the money to come here because the pain was so severe and she just could not wait long enough.

Government in health care is a bad, bad thing. We do not want hospitals and doctors offices turning into a visit to the local DMV where there is this shuffling from line to line for hours on end. That is exactly what would happen if we took that doctors advice and had the government fund the medical system properly. I contend that prices would actually come down if the government would relinguish the control they have now on medical care and cost. It would go down even more if we executed all the medical malpractice lawyer frauds who chase ambalances.

The Wall Street article can be found here:

http://www.dennisprager.com/citedbyDennis.html

Scroll down the list of articles cited to 5-19-04. The article is entitled "Dangers of Canadian Health Care." It is in a PDF format, so hopefully you can open it. I would be curious to know how accurate the author is.

Fred

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