By preserving the state health care monopoly, Canadians are actually speeding the two-tiered system so many claim to dread. More and more thousands every year are slipping over the line into the States for faster and, increasingly often, better treatment. That truly is an option only the well-heeled can afford.

Lorne Gunter    Dec. 21, 1999 - from his column in The Edmonton Journal

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