C'mon people. Most of you like most Canadians bought the propaganda that Canada had the best health care system and the private  sector was too costly. The best is now accepted as false. How about private sector being costly? If it is it is because it gives better service. The US medical, not health care, system is the best in the world thus high cost is to be expected. The health care does not look good because there has been no connection for the poor to that excellent medical system. 83% of Americans have medical insurance (pre Obama). The 17% that don't have insurance certainly skew the results. 

So don't get caught by the 2nd line of propaganda. If Canada went private sector health care, the taxpayer would carry only about 17% of the population rather than 100%. All of us who can carry ourselves would carry ourselves, the same as we do with ALL other aspects of our lives, from food to housing to holidays.

Please don't accept the propaganda. Once is enough.