An interesting submission on the healthcare system in Canada beginning with this:

Many healthcare reform advocates, political pundits, and policymakers point to Canada as a shining example of the advantages of a state-run, single-payer healthcare system.

Canada is, in fact, one of only a handful of countries with a bona fide single-payer system. Government officials set the total budget for what can be spent on health care every year.
Provinces and territories administer their own insurance programs, with additional funding from the federal government.

Private insurance is outlawed in several provinces.

This is the sort of system that many are calling for here in the United States. They want to abolish private insurance and leave government as the sole source of health coverage.

Read the rest if you think free healthcare is any kind of an answer. Because we have a dual system, there are more resources in the Australian system than there otherwise would be and everyone ends up with better healthcare than they otherwise would have. There’s more illness than the ability to treat it all but from what I can tell, Australia’s is the best there is.

Via Powerline.