Canada's socialized health care is pretty bad. How bad is it? Well:

Of practising family doctors, 60 per cent reported they are not taking new patients or are limiting the number of new patients they take. [...]

Thirty per cent of specialists surveyed said they could not fit an urgent referral into their schedule within a week. One-third of specialists said they couldn't see a non-urgent referral in less than three months.

And it's only going to get much worse in the coming years. Aside from doctors leaving (or not entering) the field, many practicing physicians plan to drastically cut back on the number of hours they are working. If they cannot make a decent profit, why bother putting in the overtime and double shifts.

But don't blame the doctors; the blame rests solely on the government. By not allowing doctors to make any money, doctors have no incentive to practice medicine.

Here's another example of good intentions paving the road to hell. Just last night I saw a local politician on TV promising to "reduce the profit" that lenders were allowed to make on student loans. Of course, that just means fewer student loans. Don't worry though. When your kid gets turned down for their student loan, you can just blame Bush.