As Canada's Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging - New York Times

As Canada's Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging - New York Times

I hope Bernie Sanders, and other single payer advocates in Vermont are paying close attention to the Canadian experience. This story says their system is failing. A shortage of doctors now in that public system will rapidly increase as private clinics and hospitals proliferate or Canadians continue to come south for U.S. medical care.

Meanwhile in the U.S., as we inch closer to a publicly financed system as more people enter Medicare, we need to be careful that we don't wind up n the same dilemma with a shortage of doctors and long waits for treatment.