Canadian: Socialized medicine sucks

Does anyone out there with more than four brain cells to rub together really believe that socialized medicine…ala the systems in Canada and Europe (notice I’m not going to include Michael Moore’s Eden-like Cuba in that list)…provides better health care than the United States? Being married to a doc naturally skews my perception…and talking to several former Canadian docs who have emigrated makes me view any claims on the superiority of socialized medicine with a very, very jaded eye.

David Gratzer takes on the topic in Investor’s Business Daily.

A clip:

Canadian doctors, long silent on the health care system's problems, are starting to speak up. Last August, they voted Brian Day president of their national association. Day has become perhaps the most vocal critic of Canadian public health care, having opened his own private surgery center and challenging the government to shut him down.

And now even Canadian governments are looking to the private sector to shrink the waiting lists. In British Columbia, private clinics perform roughly 80% of government-funded diagnostic testing.

Oh yeah…and that jaded eye thingie? I can get that fixed this afternoon here in the United States…how long’s the wait in the vaunted socialized medicine paradise?