Public health care cheapest and best

Make this an election issue. I can't believe that so many voters are more worried about same sex marriage than the state of our health care system.
TheStar.com - Public health care cheapest and best: "In Britain, a major audit on the financial difficulties at London's public Queen Elizabeth Hospital shows that so-called P3s, or public-private partnerships, may promise savings but in fact carry overly heavy costs.
Meanwhile, in the United States, a study published this week in the prestigious American Journal of Medicine shows that the quality of care for Medicare patients is better when care is delivered by not-for-profit health plans, than by for-profit plans.
While many in Canada argue that the P3 concept is a good means of tapping private capital to help fund the country's burgeoning public infrastructure needs, the experience of the near-bankrupt London hospital underscores the fact that instead of reducing the risks to taxpayers, reliance on private money can actually increase those risks."