Sick in Canada

We hear, over and over, about how Canada's government-run health care system is so vastly superior to that of the U.S. with its grubby mix of market mechanisms and legislative and bureaucratic mandates.  Michael Moore is merely the latest to parrot this line and with all of his usual subtlety, wit, and objectivity.  There is plenty to complain about, here, when it comes to health care.  And one suspects that as the complaints grow louder, the demands for some kind of "global" solution -- for something like Canada's system -- will grow ever more insistent.   Before joining the parade -- where Bernie Sanders will, no doubt, be beating on a big base drum -- one might want to consider this long, thoughtful, detailed, and disturbing look at how things actually work in that paradise to our north where “... dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and ... humans can wait two to three years.”