For the record, if you want to deal in conjecture and annecdotal evidence there's just as much stacked up against the health care system in canada. I can't tell you how many times I've read of people dying while waiting for a test or surgery. There are even the proven stories of wealthy canadians flying to the U.S. and paying for surgeries privately.

More than anything stories like this (or the ones about Canada) are scare tactics to support a political agenda. The fact still remains, a hospital in the U.S. by law CAN NOT turn away a patient for financial reasons. No one is dying on the street for lack of health care. At the same time Canada generally manages to take care of the great majority of its citizens without killing them by making them wait.

Bottom Line: The U.S. system has problems but so does the system in Canada, the U.K. and elsewhere. What we in the U.S. need to be doing is looking for a third option.