[AlaskaAngel]

It will be interesting to see where the USA goes next in dealing with health care, now that so many have either lost insurance coverage entirely as part of their jobs in the USA, or when they are still able to get it as part of their jobs, are getting far less coverage than most employees were able to get just a decade ago (now at far higher cost). What is most concerning is how easy it is with a chronic expensive disease to end up without employer-sponsored insurance even when a person has spent years and years sharing the cost, and then left to cope with whatever is available through government programs.

The people I've known by chance who have dealt with Canadian health care as U.S. citizens have had only praise for it, even though the coverage does vary between provinces -- although I don't know whether any of them were not covered by insurance of any kind at the time, or whether that would make any difference.

One of the controversies about the 2 systems is that it is very expensive to fund educational training and research, which is much more extensive and available in the USA than in Canada, and therefore Canada benefits from that major investment by the USA without having to spend as much for it.

A.A.