Can you imagine having to wait and an average of 5 1/2 weeks for treatment after you were referred by your family doctor to an oncologist? Or, 1-year waits for hip replacement surgery? The Canadian Medical Association Journal cites these long wait times and other equally astounding waits.

The ending of private health insurance in favor of mandatory public health insurance has resulted in overcrowded hospitals, substandard care, an exit of doctors and nurses, shortages of modern equipment, accelerating costs and a clumsy bureaucratic system because they have a public health care system.

Canada’s ban on private health care services is an experimental failure. Perhaps our nationalized public education system is a similar fiasco? Perhaps a free market insurance and health program where each person is alloted a certain number of dollars that have to be spent as they see fit on either health care, or in the education arena would work.