Mr. Rainey's letter of July 9 concerning Canadian health care is interesting reading. Unfortunately, as is the case with most individual experience narratives about the Canadian system, it avoids facts, figures, statistics and analysis, and falls into the usual pattern of single experience anecdotes, urban legends and old wives tales. Should Alan or anyone else desire to deal with factual information before passing judgement, I would suggest you go to the Internet and thoughtfully read any one or all of the following Web sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_American_health_care_systems_compared

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2009/05/12/health-care-lies-about-canda.aspx

http://healthcare-economist.com/2007/10/02/health-care-system-grudge-match-canada-vs-us/

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID1503

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12523427

Jerry Funk

2901 Colonial Drive