Dear American neighbours,


I have always been able to choose my own doctor, and I have done so a number of times throughout my life.  Moreover, I greatly appreciate the universal health care we have here in Canada, and the only thing that worries me is that the greed fuelling privatization along the lines of what is currently afflicting the U.S. is also at work here, even though "going private" is demonstrably going to be much more expensive and land the majority of people in the difficulties so many Americans now suffer with.  And lastly: our Canadian Medicare is NOT "socialized medicine", if by that it meant that the doctors work for the state.  All our doctors conduct their own private practices.

Hanne Quillevelre,