Socialized medicine in Canada...

Many Americans falsely believe that health care is a "right", presumably covered by the 5th Amendment. More accurately stated, since most on the left don't bother to read the Constitution nor understand its intended implications, they simply feel that somewhere in there should be a section empowering the sick to demand services from medical professionals at someone else's expense.

Unfortunately for the socialists among us, Canada's system is failing miserably. Citing a recent Canadian Supreme Court ruling, Paul Jacob summarizes the situation this way:

• Canada is the only industrialized country that actually prohibits citizens from privately contracting for medical care. In other words, no matter how much money Canadians can afford to pay, they're stuck in the public's health care system waiting and waiting and waiting for care.
• In a case brought by Jacques Chaoulli, a Montreal family doctor, and George Zeliotis, a patient forced to wait a year to have his hip replaced, Canada's Supreme Court found that the evidence "shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public health care."
  
  The court thus concluded that Canada's invasive, idiotic and totalitarian prohibition of private health insurance and medical care — of almost anything outside the government-run system — is unconstitutional. The long waiting periods in the government system violated the "life and personal security, inviolability and freedom" of patients under Quebec's charter of human rights and freedoms. So ruled the court.

As I recall, "Hillary care" would have similarly outlawed private medical care in all cases (except abortion). How can the left continue to deny history and ignore the facts of human nature?

Will the Democrat voters ever figure out the hypocrisy of the Democrat platform? (i.e. Terry Schiavo should be a family decision, yet all medical care should be managed and administered by the government...)