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Harping on health care

- August 13, 2009

South of the border, the dominant news story of the summer has been the debate over the future of the U.S. health-care system. And as if often the case, we've been pulled into the fray. Canada's system has been used by both proponents and opponents of reform as an example to justify their case. President Obama recently weighed in saying, "I don't find Canadians particularly scary, but I guess some of the opponents of reform think that they make a good bogeyman." However, he also added that he didn't think our system would work in the U.S.
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Have you been following the American health-care debate and has it made you rethink our system at all? Has it made you more confident or more critical of health care in Canada?