09-19-2009, 10:31 AM
I have no idea how Canada or any other country addresses this issue, which is hardly unique to America. Obviously, we should be looking at the health care systems of other countries--what they do well and what they do poorly--on this issue and many others as we seek to rethink and revamp how to ration socialized health care here. Health care in all countries must be rationed and socialized because there is only so much money that can be devoted to it, and because only a billionaire would be able to pay for his or her own major medical treatment. The way we do this right now, largely through "coverage" decisions made by profit-seeking private insurance companies, can certainly be improved upon. But whether we'll get that improvement in any meaningful fashion from this latest effort at reform is far from certain.