“Why are we so intent on protecting the private option?”
Because competition is healthy for the customers.
If government is so efficient at dispensing health care why do they have to raise $1.6 trillion in new taxes to pay for it. Have the liberals been lying to us all this time? Seems to me they are always saying Canada only spends 10% of GDP on health care while we spend 17%. Then they should be refunding taxpayers $1 trillion to implement, not asking for it.