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will the socialized medicine countries' citizens go for health care? br> -- James Tyler /p>

The answer to the following is easy....

"As things stand now, Canadians can crow about their egalitarian system while counting on U.S. health care to bail them out in a pinch. But one wonders where they would go if Al Gore ever became president."

p>The Canadians and Americans both will find that Castro's Cuba may well be the answer. It would not surprise me to see several "For Profit" health care facilities built there to accommodate those who do not wish to avail themselves of their country's socialized medicine. This would provide substantial employment prospects for Cubans and also a good source of revenue for the Cuban government. I just wonder how much venture capital could be raised in a hurry if an ultra-socialist Democrat were elected and a single payer system were being implemented? br> -- Tom Pendleton /p>

Jeremy Lott refers to the Canadian system as "jury-rigged." I believe the phrase actually is "Jerry rigged".

p>It developed during the desert campaigns of WWll by Brit soldiers who marveled at the German capacity to repair virtually anything using whatever was at hand. It has now become a derisive phrase but, I think, the Brits meant it as a compliment to German ingenuity.

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