No comparison of Canada, U.S systems

As a dual U.S./Canadian citizen who has lived half my life under both systems, I had a sad laugh over the passage of the Obama/Pelosi health care bill. There is no comparison between the two systems.

This is why Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland, flew to the U.S. to get his heart surgery done a couple months ago. That is why last year there was a one-year wait for MRIs in Ottawa. That is why Congress, has their own, special, platinum health care us poor, unwashed masses can't get.

My wife and I are utterly, utterly staggered by the liberal illusions about Canadian health care. One point may be instructive: In June, 2005 even the leftist Supreme Court of Canada ruled that bans on private health insurance are unconstitutional: "The prohibition on obtaining private health insurance ... is not constitutional where the public system fails to deliver reasonable service."

There's a reason this ruling occurred: the system is failing the people (and is bankrupt). And now Obama has gone and created an even worse system, will have all the efficiency of the post office, and all the compassion of the IRS.

Oh yes. Private health care clinics are currently opening up in Canada at a rate of about one per week. That's how bad it is. This disastrous and ultimately uncompassionate Pelosi-Reid bill must be repealed when the current Congress is voted out in the fall.

Jim Vanne

Aurora