known as "single payer" are employees of the government. How credible do you think a group of highly paid bureaucrats with gold plated pensions and benefits would be if they put out a statement saying "raise taxes"? Of course these doctors should be careful what they wish for, people might begin to wonder how doctors, through the monopoly licensing system that the government enforces, have become so rich. Hey, they might find that Canadians might actually want a little competition to drive costs down and force the doctors to provide services at a free market price as opposed to the one set by the government, that enables doctors to be in of the the highest paid sectors in the Canadian Economy. It reminds me of when the CEO of Wal-Mart said minimum wages should be increased, and everyone thinking that he was saying this out of the desire to see workers better off, and that Wal-Mart was on the side of it's employees. The real motive was to stifle competition so that Wal-Mart keeps more of the market share. See this article by Lew Rockwell for more information on the matter. Regardless of whether they want to give money out of the goodness of their heart or want higher salaries, the point is that government spending does not help the economy. Private spending does. Remember that for every dollar the government spends, it's a minimum of a dollar that the people no longer spend; it's more than a dollar if