Government rationing of health care in Canada is why when Karen Jepp was about to give birth to quadruplets last month, she was told that all the neonatal units she could go to in Canada were too crowded. She flew to Montana to have the babies.

"People line up for care; some of them die. That's what happens," Canadian doctor David Gratzer, author of The Cure, told "20/20". Gratzer thought the Canadian system was great until he started treating patients. "The more time I spent in the Canadian system, the more I came across people waiting. ... You want to see your neurologist because of your stress headache? No problem! You just have to wait six months. You want an MRI? No problem! Free as the air! You just gotta wait six months."

Canadian doctors tell us the system is cracking. More than a million Canadians cannot find a regular family doctor. One town holds a lottery. Once a week the town clerk gets a box out of the closet. Everyone who wants to have a family doctor puts his or her name in it. The clerk pulls out one slip to determine the winner. Others in town have to wait

president of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Brian Day, because under government care, he says, "We found ourselves in a situation where we were seeing sick patients and weren't being allowed to treat them.

Canadians stuck on waiting lists often pay "medical travel agents" to get to America for treatment. Shirley Healey had a blocked artery that kept her from digesting food. So she hired a middleman to help her get to a hospital in Washington state.
"The doctor said that I would have only had a very few weeks to live," Healey said.
Yet the Canadian government calls her surgery "elective."
"The only thing elective about this surgery was I elected to live," she said.

We found one place where providers offer easy access to cutting-edge life-saving technology, such as CT scans. And patients rarely wait.
But they have to bark or meow to get access to this technology. Vet clinics say they can get a dog or a cat in the next day. People have to wait a month.

Dmitriy, two things needs to be done. First there must be better
regulations on the pricing on drugs for consumer - that would solve a
lot of pricing issues. Second government need to extend their Medicaid
program for everyone and raise tax to be able to do so. That way a lot
of people will drop their insurance (not people like Roman...) but yet,
we will have a choice to keep insurance or use government care. yes we
will have more tax, but I have no problem with that, because doctors
and hospitals under the system will have no right to refuse care under
any circumstances.

People die every day here because their insurance
refuse to cover large expenses for cancer treatments and such. My
experience was a very clear
proof of risk we have with the system we have now. Doctors didn't know
what was wrong with me before they cut me.. they didn't know how much
it will cost - my doctor (who was Arabian - the best doctor I ever met)
made decision to help me. Hospital kept me in agony for hours trying to
figure out who will pay for it. It shouldn't be that way.

Julia, you just corrected me when I said insurance and said "no I was talking about health care" now we are talking about medicaid again. Which is it ? Health Insurance (including medicaid) or health care ?

Explain to me again, why I need to contritute my hard earned money to someone else's problems ? Aren't people who work hard to earn more get punished for their success then ?