We HAVE universal health care in Canada, Rinslinger. The world has not poured in and swamped our system. They also have totally free (and very good) health care in Cuba and they have universal national health care plans in place in most of western Europe. The world has not poured in and swamped them yet either.

Still, you have a point about Oregon...of a sort. If one makes something that's very worthwhile available in a place, and it's not available in a place that's right next door, people will certainly come in in droves to enjoy it, true. So the answer, obviously, is to make it available everywhere, isn't it?

And how does one begin to do that? By beginning at home, where one has the power to do so.