[proud_yank]

I always thought that healthcare was a provincial, not a federal issue? I recall Klein saying recently that he was going to allow private clinics after the election.

[fanfan]

Good. I hope he does.

It certainly works well in Quebec.

With a doctors recommendation, if I needed to, and can afford it, I can drive 1 hour away, and get an MRI with in 24-48 hours. It also moves people out of the regular lineups.

Health care is provided by the Provincial Gov.
We also pay for it through our federal taxes, but that money doesn't get back to our health care system.
Martin cut back on the transfer payments to the provinces. That's the problem.

[GMMAC]

Technically it is but, on both sides of the border unwarranted federal "big government" intrusion into what are supposed to rightly be state & provincial jurisdictions are increasingly commonplace.

Although I'm in Ontario, I can certainly see why people in "flyover country" in both nations are fed-up with being alternately dictated to or ignored by ever more power-grabbing central governments.