[] Debate on Health Care

PRO: Dr. William Frist and Dr. David Gratzer v. CON: Howard Dean and Dr. Robert Bell Do ballooning healthcare spending, evermore expensive prescription drugs and an increased use of private medicine foreshadow the wholesale reform of Canada’s universal, single-payer system? Or, are the divisive debates, social inequities, and sky-high expenditures associated with the U.S. experience with private medicine a validation of Canada’s universal Medicare system? To encourage a far-ranging discussion of one of the great policy unknowns facing Canadians – the future of our healthcare system – the 5th semi-annual Munk Debate will debate the resolution: I would rather get sick in the United States than Canada.