[mitchbert]

the socialized system sucks, socialized anything sucks, that's why socialized countries are not leaders of the world.

No argument with that one bit. Still, our system for all its warts is far from the unmitigated disaster I see it described as so often, here and elsewhere. If we'd simply allow a parallel private system to coexist with the public one many of the problems could be reduced significantly. Of course, getting government out of the picture entirely would be much preferrable, but reality is reality and that isn't in the cards up here.

Personally, I'd be much happier with a full private system where I culd take responsibility for myself rather than being forced to deal with a fairly mediocre system for all.

[discostu]

I'm not saying it's an unmitigated disaster, those honors go to China, but the Canadian system needs a lot of help. Fully private is the way to go, we could do with some privatization in America.