I am trying to understand why I should want government-operated health care similar to the Canadian system. There are people in Canada who have developed a business of brokering health care in the United States for their Canadian clients who cannot obtain the necessary care in Canada. Why do I want a plan like that if it does not provide the care I need? Dr. Robert McDivitt, a Butler County native and graduate of Yale Medical School, has written more than 150 articles on breast cancer. He estimates that a woman in Canada who develops breast cancer has a chance of survival that is 50 percent less than a woman in the United States. Why do I want those odds for the women in our country? They tell me our system is broken and should be replaced. If this is true, why do people travel from all over the world to receive care here? If the health care system that members of Congress are proposing is so much better than the current system, why are they exempting themselves from coverage under the proposed plan? Why are people so naïve to think Congress can run a health care system more efficiently and less expensively than the private sector? When has our government ever done anything better and cheaper than private companies? Nothing in this world is perfect, including our current health care system. But to think that the government can operate a plan more efficiently and more economically is ludicrous.
