[RebelBanker]

The priority system described in this artilce works. The problem is that many die waiting for their turn.

I am afraid I am failing to follow your logic here. If people are dying while waiting their turn, doesn't that show that the system is not working?

As with any resource for which demand exceeds supply, there must be some mechanism for distribution. Under our system, the market, albeit with heavy government interference, decides. Under the Canadian system, the government decides. The critical difference is that the free market system provides an incentive to increase and improve the scarce product or service, whereas the socialist system does not.

[Mamzelle]

re: I am afraid I am failing to follow your logic here. If people are dying while waiting their turn, doesn't that show that the system is not working?)))

But they just die one at a time--tough to build a constituency that way.

Orlando has lost its top-tier trauma system. Now if you're in a serious accident, you may well have to spend more time in transport, perhaps losing that critical "golden hour" advantage.

They lost their trauma teams because of insurance difficulties.

Now, is Orlando, a huge city with millions of tourists a year, squawking? Have you heard about it?

That's because disasters happen to individuals, not to large constituencies.

[DugwayDuke]

"I am afraid I am failing to follow your logic here. If people are dying while waiting their turn, doesn't that show that the system is not working?"

I'm sorry, I used "liberal speak" there without so noting. In liberal speak, the system works because, sooner or later, everyone on the list gets the threatment. Of course, dying removes you from the list but liberals don't won't to deal with that.