Stephen Lautens
The Calgary Sun
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When I told them that we pick our own doctors, see them virtually whenever we wish, and pay nothing for the privilege, “their jaws dropped.” When I further explained that a “wildly popular Fox News story” about Canada’s “hospital death committees”—which supposedly pull the plug on old people to save money—was a complete fabrication, I had their rapt attention. “A small crowd gathered around me at the bar to hear the Canadian tell his magical tale of health-care coverage.” One uninsured American then told me about a $15,000 MRI she was slowly paying off, while those with insurance complained of being unable to afford the medicines their doctors had prescribed.
“When I left that crowd, they were thinking that, even if it’s not perfect, Canada is a pretty good country.”
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