Sally Pipes writes for Forbes about the perils of a single payer system which includes government prices controls.  While ObamaCare moves the U.S. rapidly in that direction and Massachusetts and Vermont are adopting similar policies, Canada is moving in the opposite direction. 

According to Pipes, the father of socialized medicine in Quebec has embraced a return to the free market saying: “We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice.”  Pipes concludes here article by saying: "Here in America, federal and state officials have promised to lower health care costs — and right quick. But forcibly regulating prices won’t do the trick. Americans — and Vermonters in particular — should hope that these experiments in health care reform are mercifully short."

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