The main disadvantage of the Canadian system, as applied to the US, would be massive unemployment among the paper-pushers at private insurance companies. But we would be spending much less for health care and likely get better outcomes.
charliehall that is not really true. Healthcare in Canda is alot worse than it is here. Someone I know from Canada visited a doctor’s office here in the US and was amazed by our care. It was so much faster and more efficient than the care Canadians are used to. Personal interest, the profit motive, and competition- on the part of both healthcare providers and insurance companies is always going to work better than government bureacracies.