One of the biggest problems holding back health care in Canada is that, the moment anyone so much as HINTS at copying something that is working well in somewhere like the U.K. or France there is instantly a massive outcry of "We don't want a U.S. style health care system!!!".  As a result we can't change to copy what places like France or Sweden might have done because of problems in the U.S. system.

Obviously this makes no sense at all to anyone who spends a microsecond thinking logically about things, yet one need only read the comments above mine to see examples of this exact behaviour.  Somehow *ANY* change to health care is viewed as moving us toward that boogeyman of the U.S. health care system and, as a result, we're stuck with our poorly performing system.