Consumer Tools, Privatization

It doesn't sound like much, but it's a step in the right direction:

Aetna Members Gain Access to Care Price, Quality Data

In Canada, a country whose healthcare system is touted as vastly superior to ours, a doctor who operates the nation's largest private hospital (in violation of Canadian law) has just been elected president of the Canadian Medical Association. Read the NY Times article here.

"On average, [Canadian] provinces spend nearly 45 percent of their budgets on health care."

"In the meantime, private health clinics are opening at an average rate of one a week in Canada."

So, let's hope we can get things going in the right direction here in the good ol' US of A.