The wonderful Canadian Health Care system

From the Canadian Broadcasting Company:

Danny Williams going to U.S. for heart surgery
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.

CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 59, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.

Nice vote of confidence there -- he could have had his pick of hospitals and surgeons and as Premier, could have stepped around the lines that the common riff-raff have to wait in. We know a number of people who live in Canada and in a lot of cases, the medical care is excellent but for non life-threatening cases, the wait can be very long and there have been a number of cases where something wasn't caught and the MRI six months later showed a terminal cancer or some such. The US system does need to be reformed but not in a pork-laden 2,000+ page legislative gut-bomb...