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Excellent article, with some actual numbers in it (however they need some references).

So for all of those who wish more UNCONSTITUTIONAL, expensive, more deadly, slow, medical care, you can go to Canada or enlist in the military so you can get Veteran’s Administration long, long, long waiting periods of socialized medicine without leaving this country (except to go fight).

Actually, it is a very poorly written and researched article. "After more than a decade..." Well, I think the Canada Health Act is over 20 years old. Before that the provinces financed and administered health care for at least two decades. There were some local plans before that. I'm 58 and, as far as I can remember, back to the late 1950's we had public health care.

I don't know where Canada ranks in terms of physicians per capita. I do know that, in my city, there are lots of billboards advertising new MDs opening practices and looking for patients. I have never heard of union work rules stopping medical tests. The excuse we always hear is "lack of funding".

Throw this article in the garbage.

That said, I agree that the Pelosi proposal is unconstitutional and completely unworkable. I do not think it is possible to fit federal government health care onto 300 million people. It simply won't work.

In case anybody is interested the Canada Health Act that lays out the federal government's role in health care runs all of 3 pages. Compare that to what you are contemplating.