Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
In 2011, the Fraser Institute, the top think-tank in Canada, released a report concerning Canada's single-payer healthcare system. According to their study, it is spending at an unsustainable rate. Obama repeatedly lauded the Canadian system as a model for the US when he was running for re-election.
Report: Canadian health care spending unsustainable | The Daily Caller

And more:
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada is the Institute's annual report on hospital waiting times in Canada, based on a nationwide survey of physicians and health care practitioners. The twentieth annual survey, released December 2010, found that the total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and delivery of elective treatment by a specialist, averaged across 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, had risen from 16.1 weeks in 2009 to 18.2 weeks in 2010.
Obamas response:

“I’ve said that the Canadian model works for Canada,” he said. “It would not work for the United States, in part simply because we’ve evolved differently,” he said. “So, we’ve got to develop a uniquely American approach to this problem.”

When I used to build houses with my dad, whether we were building small single family homes, additions, or million dollar mansions, the framework was the same, and they all had concrete foundations.

And I'm gonna need more than a conservative think tank report on universal healthcare in Canada. Surely, for accuracies sake, it was peer reviewed.