I would love to see a better operating system than the US healthcare system. It has lots of flaws, but in my observation, it is better than anyone elses..Canada's? Forget it. It it weren't for the American doctors treating Canadian patients in American hospitals in that belt of areas right across the border from Canada plus the fact that Florida and I would bet other Sunbelt areas like Arizona see enormoius volumes of Canadian patients who have elected to have their surgeries performed in the good old USA, the whole Canadian health care system would collapse. Drugs? Expensive? sure they are, but someone's got to pay for the R and D of these products You guessed it, it is us. The rest of the world can get the benefits for the new drugs at a fraction of what we pay for them, but that's just the way it is. Maybe if we would realize how much we save here on cheap fuel, while the rest of the world is paying at least twice as much many times three times as much for a gallon of gasoline, we could put that savings toward the expensive drugs. Cost a lot to get treatment? Hell yes it does, when the young physician just getting out of his residency has to come up with a staggering $200,000 liability/malpractice premium before he sees his first patient. Incidently this young physician has been is school constantly for the last 10 to 11 years of otherwise wage earning years getting ready for his profession. Expensive?   Hell yes it is, and rightly so. Show me a healthcare system where there is no motivation for the provider to work hard, and I will show you a system that is grossly inefficient. My daughter had to go to the emergency room in Quebec City a few years ago when she got a sliver of steel in her eye from a ride at an amusement park. The place was like walking back into the 1950s. And they wouldn't see her until I produced CASH money, nothing else would do. Figure out a way that juries stop rewarding a lifelong smoker (is smoking bad for you? duh) A verdict of 28 billion dollars for a single malpractice case, and I will show you a system that can pass some savings back to the patient. Otherwise, I am afraid it is as good as it is going to get. I am a healthcare provider. It is always amazing the patients that will always tell me in the presence of my dental assistant or dental hygienist how "You need to give her a raise!! She is terrific," then promptly complain because my fee for a crown is outragiously high, (incidently before you flame me for wages and fees, I pay my people better than most of the other dentists and my fees are the lowest in the area.) I am amazed at the logic of people who think everything should be cheap, but By God , We are in America, and we will not stand in line for substandard healthcare like most socialized medicine becomes. I sympathize with the people who have written in about isolated situations and it is true, we should do our best for everyone, but by and large, the greater good is being provided to the greater mass of people here in the United States.