Costs in the Canadian health

Costs in the Canadian health care system

Arnold Kling posts on the costs of health care in the Canadian health care system, here: "Canadian Health Care". Non-price rationing:

"When my wife and I stayed at a Bed and Breakfast on Prince Edward Island, the owner said that seven years ago when they first moved to PEI, he was put on a three year waiting list to be assigned a personal physician. He has a heart murmur, and he was unhappy about this. One day, by chance he ran into the head of the provincial health service and talked her into moving him to the head of the queue. He told this as a reassuring story, but it made me wonder about the people he bumped back."