Won't buy hearts.

The health-care lobbies including the pharmaceutical industry and AMA, very, very rich and powerful folks, have succeeded in brainwashing the American public beyond any reason.

They do that by spending large amounts of money, and repeating the same lies over and over, in many venues. People start to believe them.

Do you think they don't make a profit on drugs sold in Mexico and Canada, typically at one-third the cost in the US? Do you think that the development costs are all charged to the US sales?

Are there tear-jerking stories about what appears to be problems with Canadian health care? Of course. There are everywhere.

Waiting lists - love to hear about those. How would you like to have an insurance plan which is better off if they can slow down treatment until you die, so they won't have to pay? What would you think if those delays were systematic, a routine way of doing business?

How about an insurance policy which said your doctor couldn't tell you how he/she was paid when you were treated? Or a policy which cost your doctor money every time you got treatment? Think that doc might be interested in seeing you got as little treatment as possible?

Those are called HMOs. I've seen exactly that happen. A number of times. The make it as difficult as possible to get treatment, because it's their money you are spending when you get sick.

And, the families couldn't sue. Wouldn't be legal.

Some people don't necessarily believe everything a huge industry acting in it's selfish interest has to say.

Some people do.

Arf