"As it took the Canadians several years, in fact decades to discover, not too many of its youth turned to medicine.  At least not enough to adequately serve the public in an efficient manner.  The long term effect of socialized medicine is less availability, as a decision based on reward, and having GOVERNMENT as your silent and misguided partner will restrict the possibility of your earnings.  As with anything government must do, it needs to contain costs from time to time or face a revolt, to do so it would limit compensation to the medically trained, or put unrealistic limits on the ability to charge for particularly difficult procedure."

And now people are looking at the model which created it, and those who still advocate that model, and saying "not for us anymore." The turnaround may well have come years ago without the neighbor to the south being there with at will medicine. They know they have trouble.

Provincial governments increasingly look to the private sector for relief. Regina, the mid-sized city in Saskatchewan that's considered the birthplace of socialized medicine, has contracted out CAT scanning--its three government scanners couldn't meet capacity, despite running seven days a week. In British Columbia, an estimated 50,000 patients a year are treated in private diagnostic centers (with public funding). Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Canadians opt to pay directly for private service in their own country or in the U.S.--unthinkable a decade or two ago.

And like in Michigan and the rest of the United States, enough folks in Canada longed for the good old days enough to throw the bums out and bring a return to prosperity.  Prosperity ONLY available with less top down governance, lower taxes, and a conservative ideology.

Seems familiar.

We did it in 2010, and there are those who think it will not continue.

Don't believe them.  And don't be afraid to put up primary challengers against those who have not yet gotten the message even while they were given that mandate by thoughts that have now proven to be correct to the north of us.  Its not over, unless we allow it to be over.

A great big thank you goes out to our northern neighbor for a reminder that there is no success to be found in further dalliances with leftist experiments.