Liberals will insist that this isn’t happening at all. Listening to them, you’d think that Americans are pouring over the border to seek medical care in Canada while Canadians are living life large to our north.

Free medical care for everyone! As much as you need! You might just have to be sent to the United States to receive it. Why? The wait lines in Canada are too damn long.

Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.

Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.

The agreements show how a country with a national care system — a proposal not part of the health care changes under discussion in Congress — copes with demand for care with U.S. partnerships, rather than building new facilities.

In other words, Canada is able to sustain its system — though just barely — because the United States has the health care system that it does. Pray tell, where will Americans end up having to go for care when America socialized its health system under ObamaCare? Canada’s out, and I’d rather die on the street than seek treatment in Mexico.

The Detroit Free Press displays its ignorance when it claims that a national care system isn’t part of the proposal in front of Congress. Barney Frank has admitted as much. So has Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) actually bragged to her liberal constituents that the public option would put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer health care. When Democrats have found themselves in settings where they won’t get booed for it, they’ve admitted and even bragged that the proposal before Congress will lead to a single-payer, national care system.

The proposal before Congress adds millions of new patients without increasing the number of doctors available. So you have the same number of physicians under the plan (or less due to wage cuts) as you do under the current private structure, but you have millions of more patients they have to see. So you’re left with rationing of care and unbearably long lines. Canada is able to cope with that by sending its patients to the United States because we have a private care system. What will happen when America adopts Canada’s system and there’s no where for American patients to escape to for quality care?

We’ll have to hope that Canada goes back to a private health system, which many of its leaders have been looking to do, so that we can continue to get timely care. Which makes you wonder why we don’t just stick with the private system we do now. You know, rather than adopting a socialized system we then have to work around.