Health Care Reform

 Just two simple points on a very complicated issue:

1. Last year I worked for a company that negotiated medical care rates for Europeans who traveled to the U.S. for health care. These patients lived in countries with "free" medical care - socialized medicine. However, they purchased private individual policies at a very high cost so they could have their surgeries or cancer treatments in the U.S. 
   
2. Prior to that, I was employed by a Canadian company at its Dallas, Texas branch office and, of course, became friendly with my colleagues in Montreal. Many of them told me that their socialized national healthcare was okay for simple things like an ear ache, or a cold, but if they had cancer, or needed surgery, then they would come to the U.S. - even though it meant paying out of their pocket for that medical care.