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Two data points: First, in 1980, I was on staff at the American College of Emergency Medicine. Had dinner with two Board members who originally were UK Docs. Asking why they came to the U.S. they both replied "to actually practice medicine". They both felt the UK National Health Service was nothing more than a splint and bandaid system that was failing the citizens while here, true cutting edge medicine could be done.

Second: Was at a board meeting in 1996 in Toronto. One of my colleagues suddenly complained that he couldn't feel his left hand or arm. We took him to the nearest hospital and the diagnosis was a small brain aneurism. He was also told they could schedule him for surgery in about 3 months. Next day he went over the border and had the aneurism clipped. Still with us today.

Bottom line, I prefer a system that allows cutting edge research and medical practice as opposed to any government bureaucrat run system. We do pay for Medicare. It's not free. and that's fine.But that's insurance, not health care.The two should always be separate.