As anyone who consumes Canadian news knows well, “introducing American-style health care” is one of this country’s greatest policy bogeymen: plenty of people are terrified of it, but it literally doesn’t exist. Any politician who bequeathed this country America’s fantastically expensive and complex system would be burned at the stake — in effigy, if they’re lucky. Still it’s deployed all the time to oppose any private-sector involvement, or any hint of a second or third “tier,” in the system.
