their income on purchases of goods and services than do higher-income people. However, the main problem with such a plan is that it leaves the wasteful, inefficient, and inequitable private insurance system in place, with no change at all in its operation. It simply makes it easier for us to purchase their defective product. Answer contributed by Len Rodberg, Ph.D. What about the claim (in videos circulating on the internet) that a patient in Canada would have died of a brain tumor if he hadn't come to the U.S. for an MRI ? The video of Lindsay McCreith is by Stuart Browning who is infamous for not allowing objectivity to interfere with his anti-government messages. Also, two interests intervened during the management of McCreith's care. One is a firm that arranges medical tourism to the United States, using queues as a business stimulus. The other is a law firm that specializes in cases that would promote privatization of the Canadian medicare system. Thus it began as a setup for the libertarian/conservative camp. The claim that he would have died had he waited the four months for an MRI scan is an outrageous lie. A C -T scan was done immediately. The tumor was identified, and it was of a nature that did not require emergency management. An emergency MRI would have been done if it were indicated, but it wasn't. We do not have all of the details that would come forth during discovery, but we do have a copy