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There is currently a lot of focus in our new presidential administration with regards to healthcare reform. 

We all know that the cost of healthcare has gotten to a point where most Americans believe that America is in the middle of a healthcare crisis.  But what can we do to make our system better and reduce costs at the same time?  There are many ideas on the table, but many believe that a single payor healthcare system, like Canada's, is the answer to our problems. 

Let's take a closer look at the Canadian healthcare system - a true, single-payor healthcare system.  Most people don't buy into the "Conservative" argument against single payor systems that this type of system will lead to "rationing" or "waiting lists".  

For information about Canadian wait times for healthcare, I invite you to investigate Rick Baker's "Timely Medical" website.  Rick Baker is an entrepreneur in Canada who helps Canadians who can't get timely access to care in their own country to get healthcare in the United States of America.  Rick Baker, a Canadian Citizen, is a strong proponent of private healthcare systems.  Why?  Because he has seen the destruction the Canadian Healthcare System created by implementing a single-payor healthcare system while, at the same time, outlawing private healthcare.    Rick Baker's website contains information about waitlists in the various Canadian provinces.  You can also get more recent information about Canadian healthcare waitlists from the Fraser Institute.

There is no "Utopian" system of healthcare.  Other countries that employ single payor systems have just as many "access to care" issues as the USA if not more.  So what can we do?  How can we cut costs while at the same time, improve quality of care? We all want the same outcome.

This is our challenge.  Americans are very impatient, and I fear a new system that is not well-thought-out will be implemented much too quickly and lead to very bad consequences in the longrun.

Let's not put America on Medicare for All.
 

-- Edited by Lynne Erickson at 14:36, 2009-03-07