In America, people wait in emergency rooms, too, but it’s much worse in Canada. If you’re sick enough to be admitted, the average wait is 23 hours.

“We can’t send these patients to other hospitals. Dr. Eric Letovsky told us. “Every other emergency department in the country is just as packed as we are.”

More than a million and a half Canadians say they can’t find a family doctor. Some towns hold lotteries to determine who gets a doctor. In Norwood, Ontario, “20/20″ videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box. The losers must wait to see a doctor.

See this disturbing video from John Stossel (from 2008) on the dreadful Canadian health care system. He talks about the “illegal” for-profit medical clinics springing up across the country giving people an option to get quality health care. He also interviews David Gratzer, author of The Cure. Gratzer describes himself as a guy who “liked Canada’s government health care until he started treating patients.” Also, note the part where he looks Michael Moore in the eye and makes reference to his obesity.

Meanwhile, Obama continues along his path of ruination, expropriating and socializing every aspect of the American economy that he can get his hands around, and of course he has promised to destroy and socialize our health care system by the end of this year. It’s pathetic that I see Americans cheering this on because “free” health care means they can free up some of their budget for trinkets and junk and dump their health care costs into the collective pot.

Then there’s this story on ABC that asks “Who should pay for obese health care?” How about the easy answer – the obese can pay for their own obesity. Private industry is having to develop cranes and ramps for their ambulances so that they can transport the morbidly obese. A woman from the special interest group Obesity Action Coalition thinks that raising the costs of such medical transportation in porder to pay for the development of the specialized equipment is “discriminatory.” In other words, costs should be flat across the board and subsidized by thin people who require no special transportation needs. Perhaps if she were to fly from Detroit to Chicago, and I were to fly from Detroit to Istanbul, Turkey, we could pool the costs thereby eliminating “discriminatory” pricing and making my flight more affordable.