Just a quick aside. A lot could be done to reduce the cost of health care in this country. Oddly enough, it seems to be competition that drives the cost up, contrary to the conventional idea to the contrary. Just as one example of many, when a hospital gets an expensive new piece of equipment, the hospital just down the street feels it has to get one too, otherwise they're "behind." Then, they have to pay for the bloody thing—from, of course, the usual revenue sources. Raise their fees. As a result of this kind of competition, there are more MRI machines (at a couple million a crack) in the city of Seattle than there are in all of Canada! What would be so bad about sharing facilities? Like they use to.

Don Firth