There's a lot of misinformation being spread about the Canadian health care system. Canadians can go to any doctor they want. If they have money, they can join a for-profit Cleveland Clinic or one of their competitors.

Sure, but there are countries where this isn't the case. At the moment, in the U.S., part of the problem is that emergency rooms have to administer urgent care, whether or not someone can pay for it. This is why there are so many homeless admitted as John/Jane Doe. This is of course a problem for hospitals, but it's terrible for people being admitted as J. Doe because of course, the hospitals will not have access to their medical records.

It must be harrowing enough to try to save someone's life, but to do so without even the possibility of access to a medical history must be much worse for the doctors.

Anyway, the U.S. attracts high quality doctors and nurses of all kinds from all over the world in part because of the pay incentives. However the new system emerges, I hope that the quality of the medical professionals will stay the same or increase but for that to happen, there needs to be good incentives in place to attract them to the States to practice medicine.

The issue of the age bubble needs to be taken into serious consideration and I hope that segment of the population will be well served by Obamacare without causing any other segment of the population to lack for anything.