Giles wrote:

See, I just do not understand why you Canadians, English, Germans,
etc. must INSIST that you know more about your respective health care
systems than we do! Why, oh WHY can you not simply accept your
comprehensive inferiority and just LISTEN!!??

g.

Silly us. What are we thinking?

I've had thsi happen to me a number of times when travelling to the US.
Typical scenario - I am at a conference wearing a name tag that pretty
much announces I am Canadian. Some one who has no experience with Canada
at all will notice it, and start on me about what a crappy health care
system we have in Canada. They tell me how my taxes are so much higher,
as is my cost of living , and how crappy our national economy is (even
during periods when we had surpkus budgets), etc. etc., all the time
ignoring anything that I might say to the contrary. It is astonishing,
reallly, that we Canadians have been able to survive for so long under
such miserable conditions.

Tim Lysyk