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8/28/2002

Oh Canada?
All those people who insist the Canadian healthcare system is worth emulating are wrong. "When Bill Clinton attempted to reform US healthcare in 1994, his administration often touted Canada's publicly funded, universal access system as a model to be emulated. As it turns out, the Canadian system may be crumbling under its own weight," reports today's Christian Science Monitor.

We may have 40 million uninsured people in this country (millions of them by choice). At least we don't wait three months for an MRI - and those uninsured do get healthcare.