Canada gives glimpse into health bill’s future

If the proposed health bill is so wonderful, then every member of Congress and the president should be forced to enroll in it with no other option. This, of course, will never happen because they have already voted themselves the best insurance plan on the entire planet.

Little by little, the Democrats' plan will coerce people out of private insurance and into the government plan.

If you want to know what this plan would be like, just look at Canada. The architect of Canadian health care, Claude Castonguay, has admitted that their system is in “crisis,” saying, “We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.”

The U.S., however, is moving in the opposite direction, that of limiting choice. If you want to know how awful the system will be that we are going to get, visit any hospital in the U.S. along the Canadian border from Maine to Washington. Ask any of the thousands of Canadian patients why they came to the U.S. for treatment. They will tell you that they cannot get adequate and timely care in their own country.

Wayne Swanson

Cedar Rapids