Flaws in Canadian system serve as red flag for Obamacare

As the U.S. debates ways to replace or improve Obamacare, Canada may offer a blueprint for reform. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has moved to transfer control from the federal government to the provinces and is opening up the socialized system to private clinics and doctors.

“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options within the public system. … that experimentation should occur at the provincial level,” Harper said a decade before winning a government majority in 2011. Now he’s acting on his vision.