"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Tales from the North: In the single-payer healthcare system to the north, they have a doctor shortage for a couple of reasons. For one, the government determines how many medical students will be educated at a time, and right now the number that are allowed is lower than the need. The result is that a lot of Canadians who want to become doctors are forced to elsewhere, then they never go back. For another, established doctors have been fleeing south to avoid their system:
Rosser says that as many as 5,000 Canadian specialists and family doctors have been lost to the United States in the past 10 years.
