Canadian Socialist Health Care Program Needs Drastic Improvement

My friends, this is why we've been pressing you to tell your legislators that you don't want socialized medicine in the United States. Conveniently enough, the Canadian Medical Association is meeting this week in Saskatoon and the incoming president is stating that the "country's (socialized) health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it."

The fear we've had all along here in the States is that patients would have inadequate health care -- something that the Canadian doctors are now conceding. "We all agree," says incoming President Dr. Anne Doig, "that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize."

"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out (apparently finances!), we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."

We heard today that President Barack Obama is retreating from the single-payer option -- that's a wealth of good news. However, we really need to make sure we don't come close to health care reform that totally stagnates our economy and stymies health care efficiency.