Universal health care not all it’s cracked up to be

To the editor:    The president is now promoting a universal health plan that will cover all United States citizens. According to President Obama, his program is going to “fix” the “broken health system” that has provided health care for Americans for many years. Although the proponents of the presidents program deny this is a nationalism of the health industry, that is exactly what has inevitably happened in every other country that has adopted this approach to health care. This has resulted in many problems for their populations. We occasionally travel through Canada and have several longtime friends who live there. Also, we had to use their emergency room facilities once so we have personal experience with their plan. Without going into too many cases, we would like to point out a few typical instances that highlight the problems.