I think this is going to be more of a political crisis than anything else. There are a lot of people out there like me but who, unlike me, aren't alarmed by the prospect of government-controlled health care. All they'll see is "free" healthcare, or at least that they'll be guaranteed treatment.
When you're talking about 40 million people and rising, that's a big voting bloc if they get mad enough.
If we don't want socialized medicine, we need to come up with a better plan.
But when you get sick and need an MRI, a Cat Scan or a heart cath, high tail it back to the states because the waiting list in Canada is longer than there life expectancy when they are seriously ill. Its one of those conundrums of socialized medecine.