Gary Coffman wrote in message . ..
On 17 Aug 2004 15:28:07 -0700, (Dan Thomas) wrote:
Now, here in Canada, our taxes are rising because of the
nationalized health care plan. We supposedly have it good, but it can
take several years to get a hip replacement, maybe a year or more for
a simple MRI. Goverments simply don't run things any more efficiently
than the private sector, and in most cases not nearly as well. It's
fine to have cheap insurance, but if the services aren't available,
where's the benefit?

I read today on Canada.com that you're having trouble keeping enough
doctors up there. Perhaps cheap insurance doesn't pay well enough.

Gary

That's part of it. We train plenty of doctors and nurses in
Canada, subsidized by Canadian taxpayer dollars, and then a bunch of
them run off to the US to make more money and pay less tax. Some of us
see this as a fair tradeoff for the US protecting us militarily, since
we are so underdefended, and others see it as just another ripoff in
cross-border trade.
More annoying are the large numbers of foreign-trained doctors
already here, or who are applying for immigration, and who can't get
past the medical bureaucracy. Canada needs thousands more doctors, and
these immigrants, well-trained doctors, are mopping floors and driving
cabs for a living while they fill out endless forms.
Dan