Canada

Here's the thing: our system isn't perfect, and you're seeing a facet where it's in need of serious repair.

The thing that blocks us is funding. Mr Ford, for all his televised strongman grandstanding, is not supporting a proper, complete, consolidated care under the control of the voter; his party typically goes for a privatized care system beholden to shareholders.

The American exceptions, where someone was able to scrape together or beg for the first period or phase of Medicare care in America, is not the rule but the exception. And we don't see but the exception.

We need to bring healthcare back in - leaving it to the provinces still, for herd safety - and have the level of care stay a perennial ballot issue. Get the mercenaries out, reap the rewards of consolidation and continued assessment and upkeep. We have a LOT to fix but we don't fix a house with dynamite (see: America).

If we truly want American-style mercenary healthcare as Mr Ford's party and Ms Smith's party trend towards, make us vote our entire way down that scummy slope to hell.