Comment: Until such time as Canada allows for private medical insurance nothing will change. The saddest part of this though is that it will take a generation of such private insurance to reach the point that Australia is at now.  Australia allowed private medical insurance over 60 years ago and has benefitted ever since but all we can do in Canada is to say our system is better than the system we say is the worst. However, regardless of how much people in this country suffer politicians, who get preference regardless of what they say, will not allow the system to change. Examples abound of how lousy our system is: Australia knee surgery from go to whoa - 8 weeks, in Canada 18 months: Cataract surgery in Australia - a few weeks, in Canada 21 months. We are a nation of complacent fools.