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Michael Moore didn't want me to see "SiCKO," his pro-socialist, anti-private health care documentary. If you know anything about health care systems, he didn't want you to see it either. At least, not at first.

Australian patients are paying for private treatment to avoid queues at crowded public hospital emergency departments.

Let's not tell Michael Moore that Canadian patients (hostages of a government-run, single-payer ‘health-scare' monopoly) are forced to flee to the States for needed service. The Calgary Herald reported (Aug.17, 2007) that five women have been transferred this year south of the border because of neonatal shortages in Calgary.

Former American president Bill Clinton was in Toronto in May 2006 calling the U.S. health system a mess and warning Canadians not to let the "health-care finance tail wag the health-care dog."

As a Canadian physician working in the United States, I have an interesting perspective on health care in the two countries.