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They've got one in Canada, and England

Truly, we in Canada have probably the best system in the world.

Living in Alberta I can't speak for the eastern seaboard provinces.

Why Americans are against socialized medicine beats hell out of me.

Don't you realize it is your own tax dollars paying for it. I am 70 years old. I have just finished a 36 treatment radiation course for cancer.

The cost for EVERYTHING from start to finish, was zero. It took seven weeks

My wife died last year from bone cancer. She was in the hopital four days a month for close to seven years for chemotherapy. Her cost for EVERYTHING was zero.

Our health care premiums together were 71.00 dollars a month. You read it right,71.00 a month. Since She has gone my cost is 32.00 a month. She was in the hospital 3 days after being diagnost. We pay 25% of all drug costs, with a maximum of 25.00 per prescpition. There is no time limit on howlong you can stay in the hospital, or how much drugs you need. I believe the difference between our two great countries could be in your defence budget.

If anyone would care to contact me thru freep mail and discuss this further, I will prove everything I say here. Keep Healthy

Condolences on the loss of your wife, biffalobull, and I pray you have beaten your own cancer once and for all, and never have to worry about it coming back. Ever. It's a horrible disease.

I think most Americans just don't like the nanny state model. When selfish, insincere people like Hillary, who clearly has no interest whatsoever in helping anyone but herself, begin campaigning to socialize our health care, Americans get the idea that they're being set up to be robbed. It's happened too many times in the past.

Thank you for coming forward. Here in the US something has got give. My family's premiums are outrageous, but who can afford to lose everything they have worked for by being uninsured? It is quickly becoming a situation of either being slowy bled for everything, or if something medically bad happens, lose it all at once. It is all about money on both sides of the fence.

It is past time to at least try something else.

For one thing, a friend of mine who is a doctor in OK said he will stop being a doctor and will go back to being a Chemical Engineer if we get nationalized medical care. He would make more money as an engineer in that case, so why put up with the stress and hours of being a doctor. He is an anestheziologist which is about the highest stress type of doc. there is. How many great doctors would we lose if they have to settle for gov. pay scale? It is like teachers... they don't make much money in Texas... so many good ones are leaving the profession. One of them who loved being a teacher/coach left that job due to low pay. She had two kids to raise, and her husband left. She went to work at a chemical factory for twice the pay of a teacher/coach. She was a great teacher/coach too! When the gov. is in charge you don't get much for your money!