Health Care Problems

Recently, there have been reports about socialized health care systems having problems with continuously providing adequate health services. Notably, a hospital in Britain told emergency room patients to stay away because it had no vacancies, hospitals in Canada are preparing to close their operating rooms to reduce patient waiting times, and hospitals in Australia shut down for six weeks over Christmas to give everybody a vacation.

Of course, to be fair and balanced, the U.S. health care system also has problems. I haven't heard of any hospitals shutting down for vacation or telling people to stay away but it has been reported that parking is a particularly irksome problem. Some health care facilities, such as the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, New York, have even had to resort to valet parking.