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Nice read Kirk on the Canadian Healthcare system, but my point is not so much the converage of indivuduals. The Health Care delivery system is a for profit business, and the majority of the uninsured losses that a hospital suffers are ER visits so I will give you that a Universal Health Care system might stop that. However, in the same system when you start talking about caps, what you will and won't pay for the service then the provider is basically in a no win situation. Give you an example, a drug company that makes a heart medicine and takes a precentage of the profits on that to invest in reasearch for new medications, if the all encompassing system all the sudden tells them you will get this much for drug A and this much for drug B then where do the research dollars come from? higher taxes again? The other thing I have noticed in reading about the Canadian system is the wait times involved in getting care seem to be way out of proportion to what they are here. Thats just an obervation