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The fate of retiree benefits is the "canary in the coal mine," as one policy analyst put it recently, for what everyone else needs to worry about as America's health care crisis deepens.

Understaffing combined with patients' fears that they won't be treated — or won't be able to pay — create health care crises daily in hospitals across the nation. So say nurses represented by CWA in New York, New Jersey and Iowa.

Americans spend more money on health care — lots more — and Canadians, sometimes, have to wait longer for non-urgent treatment.

To understand how much Canadians value their national health system, consider that the winner of a reality TV show called "The Greatest Canadian" was the man known as the "father of Medicare."

Health care systems that are public, of high quality and that give equal service to all citizens, unemployed or not, are best for society.