that is a pretty acurate picture if you ask me! I have some good friends that live in BC Canada (just outside of Vancouver), they fly to Mexico! when they need anything outside of a checkup or routine medical treatment due to the government run system in Canada. They tell me it can take months for an appt. Essentially, they'd rather pay mexican doctors than accept the free canadian government "doctors" (sic) care. Go figure. Oh, and these are not super wealthy people either, just regular folks. Personally, given the choice I'd rather pay directly for something than through gov't taxation any day. Of course I feel that way about alot of things the government fucks up, er I mean runs......